While that vision of pushing novel information directly into your brain is clearly fantasy, American computer scientist and futurist Ray Kurzweil thinks we’ll only have to wait until 2045 for ...

Pregnancy overhauls a woman’s body. The brain is no exception. A detailed study of a woman’s brain before, during and after pregnancy revealed sweeping neural changes, some of which stuck ...

For the first time, scientists have observed the brain throughout the pregnancy timeline, from pre-conception to postpartum. Using precision brain imaging, researchers were able to map ...

Researchers have created one of the first comprehensive maps of how the brain changes throughout pregnancy, substantially improving upon understanding of an understudied field. Certain brain ...

This morning, surgeons at the University of Manchester temporarily placed a thin, Scotch-tape-like implant made of graphene on the patient’s cortex—the outermost layer of the brain.

Major tracts of white matter - which provide connections between different parts of the brain - show evidence of increasing during pregnancy Pregnancy brain really does exist, according to one of ...

How exactly does the human brain so effortlessly and instantaneously make such judgments? Scientists have a relatively rich understanding of how the sounds of speech are transformed into sentences ...

A study tracks how the structure of the brain changes during pregnancy, drawing on brain scans gathered before, during and just after one person's pregnancy. Pregnancy may cause more than 80% of ...

The headphones, called the MW75 Neuro, contain the same sensors as a bulky electroencephalogram — known as an EEG — which is used to measure electrical activity in the brain. Embedded with ...

Researchers follow the dramatic changes that occur in the brain throughout the course of pregnancy. Pregnancy is a transformative time in a person's life where the body undergoes rapid ...

[7] Because the human brain is not accessible to sampling ... endogenous dopaminergic and serotonergic rhythms in SCN and VMH in the transition from the insulin-sensitive to insulin-resistant ...

As hormones surge, some brain areas shrink in what scientists say may be a fine-tuning that helps mothers bond with and care for their babies. By Pam Belluck Pam Belluck covers brain health ...