Bipolar disorder can feel like a storm that erupts from nowhere, yet for decades the brain circuitry driving those brutal ...

Scientists rebuilt human brain circuits in the lab and discovered that the thalamus acts as a central organizer of cortical wiring. The findings offer new insight into how brain networks form and why ...

Cortigent is a leading developer of brain implant devices based on precision neurostimulation technology . Cortigent is the ...

Elon Musk's Neuralink prepares Blindsight implant human trials by 2026, aiming to restore vision for the blind with FDA Breakthrough Device Designation.

Patients with infantile nystagmus had significant gains in near and distance visual acuity as well as stereopsis following regular sessions of vision training with RevitalVision software, according to ...

How do electrical signals become "about" something? Through purely physical processes, neural networks transform activity ...

New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, ...

Cortigent is a leading developer of brain interface devices based on precision neurostimulation technology . The company’s new Orion cortical stimulation system for visual perce ...

Studies of brain injuries and electrical stimulation seemed to bear this out. Damaging the Broca’s area, for instance, interfered with speech, and stimulating specific tissues could lead to specific ...

Understanding how the brain creates conscious experience remains one of science’s most difficult challenges. Brain scans and ...

A new MIT study finds that somatostatin-expressing neurons follow a unique trajectory when forming connections in the brain’s visual cortex that may help establish the conditions needed for sensory ...