Neurophysiology

For the first time ever, a surgery regrows spinal cord nerves — and lets this man walk again

October 31, 2014Medicine

Repairing spinal cord injuries and restoring movement to a paralyzed person has been the subject of intense research for decades — but success has always seemed out of reach. Now a new type of surgery has allowed a Polish man to walk again after having been paralyzed.

Reuters journalist explores the complicated science of sleep in new book

August 15, 2013Arts, Culture & Media

Mapping the Brain to Better Understand Ourselves

August 15, 2013

Mind Games: Designing with EEG

August 15, 2013Arts, Culture & Media

Electricity could boost your kid’s brainpower

August 15, 2013Education

The Road to Hyperpolyglottery with Michael Erard

August 15, 2013The World in Words

A new book investigates language super-learners and their “will to plasticity”.

Animal Note/Wake-up Call

August 14, 2013

Living on Earth’s Maggie Villiger reports on new research on the chemical ways fruit flies can influence one another’s circadian clocks.

DIY checkup: sleep and health

August 14, 2013Health & Medicine

For this week’s DIY Health segment, Newsweek’s Kate Dailey and Dr. David Dinges, editor of the journal, Sleep, and professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, help us figure out what we lose when we lose sleep.

Why we can relax about sleep

August 14, 2013Environment

Feeling tired on your drive to work this morning? Frustrated by your early morning and late nights? A new study on sleep says even though you feel like you’re chronically sleep deprived, you might be getting more sleep than you think. Jim Horne of Loughborough University tells John and Adaora why we might be getting […]

In a modern-age whodunnit, the brain is used as evidence in an Indian trial

August 14, 2013Environment

This past summer, a woman was given a life sentence for murder after prosecutors strapped her to memory-scanning electrodes and ran a test called Brain Electrical Oscillations Signature, or BEOS. Could this be coming to America anytime soon?