The trillions of bacteria in your gut have more of a relationship with your brain than you may realize. Technically known as the enteric nervous system, the second brain consists of sheaths of neurons embedded in the walls of the long tube of our gut, or alimentary canal, which measures about nine m...

The 3D design of the brain construction by two Year 7 Invicta Grammar School students.

Poliovirus targets brain tumors at the Preston Robert Tisch Tumor Center at DukeDrs. Darell Bigner, Matthias Gromeier, John Sampson, Annick Desjardins, and Henry Friedman talk about the most exciting and promising new treatment for glioblastoma multiforme brain tumors. They are planning to test thi...

The notion that the state of our gut governs our state of mind dates back more than 100 years. The emerging concept of the gut microbiome as a key regulator of brain and behavior opens up a new horizon in neuroscience. Precise targeting of the microbiome-gut-brain axis with psychobiotics is a novel

music minds See an expanded version of the film's sequence on Oliver Sacks's brain as it reacts to different pieces of music.

Prof. Simon Carding, Leader of the Gut Health and Food Safety Research Programme, Institute of Food Research and Norwich Medical School at the University of East Anglia, describes our current understanding of the human gut and its relationship with its human host and introduce the provocative propos...

In this 1995 interview, famed neurologist and author Oliver Sacks talks about the perils of profiling people, his friendship with Robin Williams (who played him in the film "Awakenings"), his wariness of technology, an island where 10% of the population can't see color, and his wonder over our "unim...

Cathy Hutchinson has been unable to move her own arms or legs for 15 years. But using the most advanced brain-machine interface ever developed, she can steer a robotic arm towards a bottle, pick it up, and drink her morning coffee. The interface includes a sensor implanted in Cathy's brain, which 'r...

The brain of the internet, has recently demonstrated that its artificial neural networks have the power to dream by trained these networks to recognize objects, animals, faces and nature, by feeding them millions of images.

Inventor, author and futurist Ray Kurzweil appeared on I've Got a Secret in 1965 when he was 17 years old. His secret was related to his theory of Singularity, when the computers will take over the functions of the human brain.