CRISPR approach offers hope for severe childhood brain disorder

When brain development gets off to a bad start, the consequences are lifelong. One example is a condition called SCN2A ...
University of California, San Francisco

Can CRISPR Fix a Childhood Brain Disorder?

A study using CRISPR restored brain connectivity and made the brain more resilient to seizures, which are often seen in a ...
Harvard Medical School

K. Lisa Yang Brain Body Center Launches at Harvard Medical School

Now, a $30 million gift to Harvard University from philanthropist Lisa Yang is propelling these efforts by establishing the K ...

Study identifies genetic loci that link brain structure and various psychiatric disorders

The development of many psychiatric disorders, including depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, is known to be in ...
Carnegie Mellon University

Decoding the Brain’s Hand ‘Alphabet’ Could Transform Prosthetics and Brain-Computer Interfaces

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Coimbra have discovered that the human brain organizes hand movements much like an alphabet — combining a small set of simple motions ...
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Could CRISPR could fix this severe childhood brain disorder?

When brain development gets off to a bad start, the consequences are lifelong.   One example is a condition called SCN2A haploinsufficiency, in which children are born with just one functioning copy ...
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Death And The Mind: What A Once-In-A-Lifetime Brain Scan Showed

Death has always been one of humanity’s greatest mysteries, but a completely accidental brain scan captured something that ...
IEEE

Brain-Guided Self-Paced Curriculum Learning for Adaptive Human-Machine Interfaces

Abstract: Human-machine interfaces (HMIs) face several challenges that hinder their long-term performance and adaptability, such as severe overfitting of machine learning models due to limited ...