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Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI): Towards Humans’ Merger with AI 

The ongoing clinical trials of Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) such as Neuralink’s “Telepathy” implant involve establishing communication links between the brains of participants who have unmet medical needs due...

Targeting Neurons in Hypothalamus for Stress-related Sleep disorders

Stress-related sleep and memory disorders are important health problem facing many people. The corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) neurons in the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) in the hypothalamus...

Hidden consciousness, Sleep spindles and Recovery in Comatose Patients 

Coma is a deep unconsciousness state associated with brain failure. Comatose patients are behaviourally unresponsive. These disorders of consciousness are usually transitory but may...

A Mouse can Sense the World Using Regenerated Neurons from Another Species  

Interspecies Blastocyst Complementation (IBC) (i.e., complementation by microinjecting stem cells of other species into blastocyst-stage embryos) successfully generated rat forebrain tissue in mice which...

Ultra-High Fields (UHF) Human MRI: Living Brain imaged with 11.7 Tesla MRI of Iseult Project  

Iseult Project’s 11.7 Tesla MRI machine has taken remarkable anatomical images of the live human brain from participants. This is the first study of live...

3D Bioprinting Assembles Functional Human Brain Tissue for The First Time  

Scientists have developed a 3D bioprinting platform that assembles functional human neural tissues. The progenitor cells in the printed tissues grow to form neural...

Caffeine Consumption Induces Reduction in Grey Matter Volume

A recent human study showed that just 10 days of caffeine consumption caused a significant dose-dependant reduction in grey matter volume in the medial...

Donepezil’s Effects on Brain Regions

Donepezil is an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor1. Acetylcholinesterase breaks down the neurotransmitter acetylcholine2, thereby reducing acetylcholine signalling in the brain. Acetylcholine (ACh) enhances the encoding of...

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