brain-matters2014: CommonHealth Year Of The Brain, From Depression To Dyslexia2014 was CommonHealth's Year of the Brain, as embodied in its multi-part and multi-media brain series, "Brain Matters: Reporting from the Frontlines of Neuroscience."Local CoverageDec 25, 2014The Bionic Mind: Building Brain Implants To Fight Depression, PTSDMore than 100,000 people have brain implants to treat Parkinson's disease; now, with funding from the military, researchers aim to take brain implant technology to the next level and use...ResumeLocal Coverage07:20Oct 30, 2014What Depression Stole From Me, What A Brain Implant RestoredLiss Murphy of Boston shares her story of the devastating depression that overtook her and the experimental Deep Brain Stimulation that has helped her recover. Researchers are now attempting to...Local CoverageOct 30, 2014Cheap, Low-Tech Devices Help Paralyzed Patients 'Speak Their Minds'For people who are "locked in," the SpeakYourMind Foundation invents low-tech ways to communicate, even just by tracking eye movement or the lift of an eyebrow.Local CoverageAug 28, 2014Beyond Good And Evil: New Science Casts Light On Morality In The BrainNew brain science teases out -- and can even alter -- some of the biological underpinnings of our choices to do good deeds or bad, of our judgments of what's...ResumeLocal Coverage09:28Aug 7, 2014AdvertisementAsk A Philosopher: What Does New Brain Science Mean For Free Will?Philosopher Daniel C. Dennett addresses questions of moral responsibility -- "My brain made me do it!" -- raised by new neuroscience findings on the biological underpinnings of morality.Local CoverageAug 7, 2014Brain Scientists Learn To Alter And Even Erase MemoriesMemories, it turns out, are malleable, and brain scientists are learning to alter and erase them, raising some hopes of possible treatments for memory disorders like Alzheimer's disease.ResumeLocal Coverage07:09Jul 24, 2014How Playing Music Affects The Developing BrainResearchers in the burgeoning field of music neuroscience discuss the effects of music on brain development.ResumeLocal Coverage11:22Jul 17, 2014How Addiction Can Affect Brain ConnectionsA growing body of research shows that addiction is a complex brain disease that affects people differently. But the research also raises hopes about potential treatments.ResumeLocal Coverage09:25Jul 10, 2014In Search Of 'Computational Psychiatry:' Why Is It A Hot New Field?A personal quest for understanding: What the heck is computational psychiatry and why does it seem to be such a hot field of neuroscience right now? Local CoverageJul 4, 2014How Childhood Neglect Harms The BrainExperts have long known that neglect and abuse in early life increase the risk for psychological problems, but now neuroscientists are explaining why.ResumeLocal Coverage10:41Jun 26, 2014'I'm Not Stupid, Just Dyslexic' — And How Brain Science Can HelpNew research shows it's possible to pick up some of the signs of dyslexia in the brain, even before kids learn to read. Earlier identification could influence how parents and...ResumeLocal Coverage10:57Jun 19, 201411 Young Neuroscientists Share Their Cutting-Edge ResearchNeuroscientists from BU, Harvard and MIT tell us what they're working on.Local CoverageJun 12, 2014Unlocking The Brain: Are We Entering A Golden Age Of Neuroscience?Brain science is entering what some researchers say may be a golden age, gaining important new insights into the workings of the brain -- even as brain disorders, from autism...ResumeLocal Coverage09:59Jun 12, 20145 Ways The Brain Stymies Scientists And 5 New Tools To Crack ItA leading authority on neuroscience, Dr. Steven Hyman, discusses why understanding the brain is so darned hard, and how new scientific tools are nonetheless making it possible.Local CoverageJun 12, 2014Brain Images: New Techniques And Bright ColorsThese 12 images show some of the cutting-edge techniques that scientists are using to try to solve the mystery of the brain.Local CoverageJun 12, 2014
2014: CommonHealth Year Of The Brain, From Depression To Dyslexia2014 was CommonHealth's Year of the Brain, as embodied in its multi-part and multi-media brain series, "Brain Matters: Reporting from the Frontlines of Neuroscience."Local CoverageDec 25, 2014
The Bionic Mind: Building Brain Implants To Fight Depression, PTSDMore than 100,000 people have brain implants to treat Parkinson's disease; now, with funding from the military, researchers aim to take brain implant technology to the next level and use...ResumeLocal Coverage07:20Oct 30, 2014
What Depression Stole From Me, What A Brain Implant RestoredLiss Murphy of Boston shares her story of the devastating depression that overtook her and the experimental Deep Brain Stimulation that has helped her recover. Researchers are now attempting to...Local CoverageOct 30, 2014
Cheap, Low-Tech Devices Help Paralyzed Patients 'Speak Their Minds'For people who are "locked in," the SpeakYourMind Foundation invents low-tech ways to communicate, even just by tracking eye movement or the lift of an eyebrow.Local CoverageAug 28, 2014
Beyond Good And Evil: New Science Casts Light On Morality In The BrainNew brain science teases out -- and can even alter -- some of the biological underpinnings of our choices to do good deeds or bad, of our judgments of what's...ResumeLocal Coverage09:28Aug 7, 2014
Ask A Philosopher: What Does New Brain Science Mean For Free Will?Philosopher Daniel C. Dennett addresses questions of moral responsibility -- "My brain made me do it!" -- raised by new neuroscience findings on the biological underpinnings of morality.Local CoverageAug 7, 2014
Brain Scientists Learn To Alter And Even Erase MemoriesMemories, it turns out, are malleable, and brain scientists are learning to alter and erase them, raising some hopes of possible treatments for memory disorders like Alzheimer's disease.ResumeLocal Coverage07:09Jul 24, 2014
How Playing Music Affects The Developing BrainResearchers in the burgeoning field of music neuroscience discuss the effects of music on brain development.ResumeLocal Coverage11:22Jul 17, 2014
How Addiction Can Affect Brain ConnectionsA growing body of research shows that addiction is a complex brain disease that affects people differently. But the research also raises hopes about potential treatments.ResumeLocal Coverage09:25Jul 10, 2014
In Search Of 'Computational Psychiatry:' Why Is It A Hot New Field?A personal quest for understanding: What the heck is computational psychiatry and why does it seem to be such a hot field of neuroscience right now? Local CoverageJul 4, 2014
How Childhood Neglect Harms The BrainExperts have long known that neglect and abuse in early life increase the risk for psychological problems, but now neuroscientists are explaining why.ResumeLocal Coverage10:41Jun 26, 2014
'I'm Not Stupid, Just Dyslexic' — And How Brain Science Can HelpNew research shows it's possible to pick up some of the signs of dyslexia in the brain, even before kids learn to read. Earlier identification could influence how parents and...ResumeLocal Coverage10:57Jun 19, 2014
11 Young Neuroscientists Share Their Cutting-Edge ResearchNeuroscientists from BU, Harvard and MIT tell us what they're working on.Local CoverageJun 12, 2014
Unlocking The Brain: Are We Entering A Golden Age Of Neuroscience?Brain science is entering what some researchers say may be a golden age, gaining important new insights into the workings of the brain -- even as brain disorders, from autism...ResumeLocal Coverage09:59Jun 12, 2014
5 Ways The Brain Stymies Scientists And 5 New Tools To Crack ItA leading authority on neuroscience, Dr. Steven Hyman, discusses why understanding the brain is so darned hard, and how new scientific tools are nonetheless making it possible.Local CoverageJun 12, 2014
Brain Images: New Techniques And Bright ColorsThese 12 images show some of the cutting-edge techniques that scientists are using to try to solve the mystery of the brain.Local CoverageJun 12, 2014