Sumatran and Kalimantan elephants are now critically endangered as their habitat areas have been reduced from 42 to 21, Indonesian Forestry Minister Raja Juli Antoni told a meeting with various ...

A headset recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration uses a weak electric current to shock the brain. Some researchers hope it could challenge the current pill-centric paradigm. By Rachel E ...

Most people think of Alzheimer’s disease as an illness of aging. But in fact, the brain changes that characterize it begin much earlier – sometime around the third decade of life. Developing tau ...

A weeklong, high-intensity version of TMS may work nearly as well as the standard six-week treatment for depression. In a UCLA study, patients who received five sessions a day for five days ...

In a first, this week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a brain stimulation device designed to treat depression at home. The approval of the first such device for home depression ...

The market for direct-to-consumer neuromodulation gadgets is booming, fueled by sophisticated marketing and patient desperation. From simple transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) pens to ...

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Deep brain stimulation is a surgical brain therapy used to treat symptoms of movement disorders such as dystonia, Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy. Performing over 100 DBS procedures annually, the ...

At the ongoing VSLive! developer conference in San Diego, Microsoft today announced Visual Studio 2026 Insiders, a new release of its flagship IDE that pairs deep AI integration with stronger ...

A guitarist in a death metal band was one of several people who found that personalized deep brain stimulation eased their pain and helped them reduce pain medication. A guitarist in a death metal ...

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