Browsing: Brain

For decades the term “Monday blues” has been shorthand for the collective groan that greets the start of each workweek. It’s also well documented in medical…

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.You probably think you’re listening to my voice right now. But what if I told you that…

September 12, 20253 min readChild’s Death Shows How Measles in the Brain Can Kill Years after an InfectionA child in Los Angeles County has died from…

It all starts with the coil. Of course it does. This is Davina, and Davina McCall doesn’t do personal by halves. “I loved the coil, but…

Picture an apple, any apple.As long as you don’t have aphantasia—the inability to visualize things in your mind’s eye—this suggestion triggers brain activity that’s surprisingly similar…

Surgeons have transplanted a lung from a genetically modified pig into a brain dead human recipient for the first time and found it functioned for nine…

‘Baby brain’ is often referenced jokingly and dismissively when discussing pregnancy and forgetfulness. But a new brain scan study reveals something more profound: pregnancy does not…

Billions of nerve cells send signals coursing through our bodies, serving as conduits through which the brain performs its essential functions. For millennia physicians thought damage…

Early on in Confessions of a Brain Surgeon, a crew member pipes up from behind the camera. Would Henry Marsh mind saying something, anything, to see…

August 14, 20254 min readNew Brain Device Is First to Read Out Inner SpeechA new brain prosthesis can read out inner thoughts in real time, helping…