A more precise and personalized form of electric brain stimulation may be a more effective and faster treatment for people with moderate to major depression compared to other similar treatments, ...

One in six people worldwide suffers from neurological and psychiatric disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease, ...

A painless, non-invasive brain stimulation technique can significantly improve how young adults learn math, my colleagues and I found in a recent study. In a paper in PLOS Biology, we describe how ...

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Allegheny Health Network have developed a new method for deep brain stimulation. The technique, called "DeepFocus," uses transcranial electrical ...

A new frontier in brain science is moving out of the lab and into daily life. Researchers have built an artificial intelligence system that can boost concentration safely from home by personalizing ...

Electrode arrays could help regenerate damaged optic nerves ...

Wayne Feng demonstrates transcranial brain stimulation with constraint-induced movement therapy. Photo Credit: Ziping Huang Administering transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) along with ...

Imagine getting a boost of motivation to work out, not from a drug or power drink but via a cap that delivers a gentle tingling sensation. And imagine a similar gentle tingle that could also help ...

The original story “ Electrical stimulation can restore ability to move limbs after spinal cord injury ” is published in The ...

Researchers at Brown University have demonstrated that targeted electrical stimulation of the spinal cord can restore both ...

People with schizophrenia often suffer from cognitive difficulties. Transcranial direct current stimulation of the brain is widely considered safe and is being studied as a treatment for depression.