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Health & Medicine

Doctors found a snake parasite in a woman’s brain — still alive

This worm typically infects pythons. Though this is its first known infection in humans, other types of worms also can infect the human brain.

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‘Lucid’ dreamers could solve mysteries about sleeping minds

People who know they’re asleep while dreaming could help study how sleeping minds create elaborate alternate realities.

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Neuroscientists decoded a song from brain activity

The technique could help improve communication devices for people who are unable to speak.

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A rat’s playfulness relies on cells in one part of its brain

Certain cells here control its behavior. Studying this circuitry could also help us understand depression in people.

Tech

Nanobots can now enter brain cells to spy on what they’re doing

Fleets of advanced versions may one day be able to detect disease and then go about surgically treating it — without ever opening the skull.

Psychology

Scientists Say: Neurodivergent

This often-misunderstood word describes someone whose brain works a little differently from most.

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Neuroscientists use brain scans to decode people’s thoughts

The research may lead to new devices for people who can’t communicate easily. It also raises privacy concerns.

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Scientists Say: Addiction

Recovering from addiction is hard but possible. Encouragement of loved ones can improve a person’s chances of overcoming this disease.

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Scientists Say: Connectome

A connectome is a diagram of the cellular highways that carry information in the brain.

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Scientists mapped every nerve cell in this insect brain

Researchers have built a “connectivity map” of all the nerve cells in the larval fruit fly brain and how they link together.

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Let’s learn about the science of language

The languages we speak may help shape how we see, smell and hear the world around us.

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Ingredients in popular snack foods can make them addictive

Researchers find that highly processed foods rich in sugar and added fat may be as addictive as tobacco.