The third part of the series explores the promising brain areas to target for deep brain stimulation for depression.
The fourth article in the series explores the physical and emotional challenges of experimental brain implants for depression.
The fifth article in the series asks why people are so uncomfortable with changing the brain.
The final story of the series describes efforts to simplify and improve brain implants for severe depression.
Roughly 480,000-year-old wooden find from Zambia suggests early hominids were more skilled at structuring their environments than scientists realized.
COVID-19, mpox and many other pathogens are detectable in wastewater, but public health officials are still figuring out how best to use those data.
Smaller cells occur in larger numbers in the human body, and cells of different size classes contribute equally to our overall mass.
The infection is the first known case of the worm Ophidascaris robertsi in a person. It’s not the only type of worm that can infect human brains.
The work represents an important advance in the methods needed to grow humanized kidneys, hearts, and pancreases in animals.