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Amputees control avatar by imagining moving their missing limbs

Amputees control avatar by imagining moving their missing limbs

23 June 2017

Even after losing a limb, brain activity associated with imagined movements can be read by an fMRI brain scanner and used to control a computer character
Pieces of cabbage

Special cells explain why cabbage and stress churn your guts

22 June 2017

When a type of cell in the intestine detects dietary irritants and stress hormones, it sends distress signals to the brain, telling it to move things along

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