Brain Box

Near-death Experience (Wiki Commons) Can neuroscience shed light on one of life's biggest mysteries - death? In a paper just publis...

Recently Horikawa and colleagues from ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, in Kyoto (Japan), caused a media sensation with the ...

This is something of an update to a previous post , but I thought interesting enough for its own blog entry. Just out in  PNAS , Nirenbe...

Mind reading tends to capture the headlines. And these days we don't need charlatan mentalists to perform parlour tricks before a fait...

Last week we heard about the retinal implant , this week is all about the neural prosthetic arm ( video ). As part of a clinical trial con...

It is a big news story in the UK at the moment. Surgeons at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford have implanted UK's first subretinal...