Brain

Sure, your brain is more dynamic than once thought. But harnessing those powers is tricky.

A professor in China builds a brain-machine interface that keeps humans fully in charge.

Karl Deisseroth developed astounding technologies that light up the brain and render it transparent. Yet some of his most compelling breakthroughs still come from listening to patients.

An electrical-stimulation technology with promising new uses comes from a dark age that still has a lot to teach us.

Forget what you may have heard about neural networks in software. This startup is making a computer with living neurons.

Michael Pollan explores the neuroscience of psychedelics in this excerpt from his new book.

With better CPR techniques, more people might live to tell the tale of what happens right before everything slips away.

The same device that is driving you crazy could hold the keys to solving our mental health crisis.

Researching orgasms gives this reviewer some perspective on the new comedy by Whitney Cummings.

Emotions don’t get in the way of rational thought, says Antonio Damasio. They make it possible.