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Building bionic people and controlling computers with thought alone

Building bionic people and controlling computers with thought alone

Take brains, add computer connections, and watch people with brain injury or paraplegia function by thought alone. Renowned engineer John Donoghue explains how.

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Mind

The psychology of magic and how it plays with our minds

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Mind

The great wonder and strangeness of the human brain

Culture

A maze that looks like a human head

Technology

Mind-reading device uses AI to turn brainwaves into audible speech

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Brains from pigs can be partially revived after death

Health

Pig brains have been partly revived after death - what does this mean?

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It’s time to change our approach to 'psychosomatic' illness

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It's not an illusion, you have free will. It's just not what you think

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Health

Your heartbeat may help you sync up with other people to cooperate

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Health

The illnesses caused by a disconnect between brain and mind

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Brain scans could reveal signs of childhood mistreatment

Mind

Child abuse may change brain structure and make depression worse

Brain scans suggest that mistreatment during childhood is linked to changes in brain structure that may make depression more severe in later life

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Health

From the archives: Pop a pill to change your personality

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Brain zap prison experiment suspended by Spanish government

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Don’t miss: A life in death, aquatic mysteries and the brain unveiled

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Humans

Find tonic water bitter? Part of your brain may be on the small side

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