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According to the Center of Diseases and Prevention Control, the number of senior adults battling Alzheimer's is expected to ...

A new theoretical framework reveals why magnetoelectric nanoparticles behave unpredictably and how their nonlinear physics ...

New research suggests transcranial electrical stimulation could reduce obsessive–compulsive disorder symptoms. Discover more.

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece discusses advances in vagus nerve stimulation. In 1999, I defined regenerative medicine as the collection ...

More than 80% of patients implanted with a transvenous phrenic nerve stimulation device for central sleep apnea had at least ...

Not the foot itself, not the ground beneath it, but a sensation somewhere above the injury that her brain had learned to translate into something useful. “It wasn’t like I could feel my foot hit the ...

Pulses of electricity delivered to a precise location on the spinal cord have helped two stroke patients regain control of a disabled arm and hand, a team reports in the journal Nature Medicine. The ...

About one-third of depression patients do not respond to standard antidepressants. A new treatment called PACE uses personalised brain mapping and electrical stimulation to target malfunctioning ...

What does it really mean when we use technologies to read our minds and modify our brains? This article is from The Checkup, MIT Technology Review's weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your ...