A headset recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration uses a weak electric current to shock the brain. Some ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Electrical brain stimulation using a non-invasive cap can help boost older people's mental scores to those of people 20 to 30 years younger, according to a study published on Monday ...

While many brain-computer interface companies are focused on helping paralyzed people communicate, Motif Neurotech is ...

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

Wayne Feng demonstrates transcranial brain stimulation with constraint-induced movement therapy. Photo Credit: Ziping Huang Administering transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) along with ...

Stimulation of the visual cortex of the brain for 20 minutes with a mild electrical current can improve vision for about two hours, and those with worse vision improve the most, according to a ...

People with Parkinson's disease who have a pacemaker-like device implanted in the brain spend an extra four-plus hours a day free of tremors and involuntary movements than they do on medication, ...

People with schizophrenia often suffer from cognitive difficulties. Transcranial direct current stimulation of the brain is widely considered safe and is being studied as a treatment for depression.