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Brain cells that regulate wakefulness may become overactive with age

Brain cells that promote wakefulness fire too much in older mice, which may explain why many people find it harder to sleep as we get older

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There are neurons in the brain that only seem to respond to singing

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Your brain doesn’t slow down until your 60s 鈥� later than we thought

Light micrograph of a dorsal root ganglion stained with Cajal's silver nitrate. Near the rounded cell bodies of the pseudounipolar neurons the axons make several turns, forming Cajal's initial glomeruli.

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Map of pain neurons may lead to more effective drugs for chronic pain

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Ultrasound can control genetically altered brain cells in mice

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Spinal implants let three people who were paralysed walk with support

Circuit Board With Encoder And Decoder Binary Code Vector Background. Blue Abstract Brain Security Technology Illustration.

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Florian Solzbacher interview: Mind-reading implant may soon go on sale

question in the brain

Mind

Using tools helps you understand language and vice versa

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Paralysed mice walk again after gel is injected into spinal cord

At the newly opened Toddler Lab at Birkbeck, University of London, a new technique for imaging the brain using infrared light means we are starting to understand how young children learn to plan complex goals. The lab utilises functional near-infrared spectroscopy or fNIRS and motion capture gloves to measure how children learn to plan and achieve goals. Pictured: Finn

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A new kind of brain scan is letting us understand how toddlers think

Technological advances mean that we can finally tackle an age-old question: what's going on in the minds of children?

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Lab-grown human mini-brains kept alive for a year by slicing them up

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Sexual desire may be triggered by gentle touch sensors in your skin

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Woman鈥檚 depression treated by an implant responding to brain patterns

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Woman who first gained sense of smell at age 24 finds it disturbing