Brain activity and verbalization can both affect our pupils. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. The subtle changes may help assess linguistic development in children who otherwise are too young too communicate to researchers. Your eyes really can betray your thoughts, but don't get too self-conscious about it. Researchers in Japan believe that the subtle signs our eyeballs make are more useful to neuroscientists than the interrogation room.

The quest for cognitive immortality continues. Have you ever thought about what makes you? Science assures us it has everything to do with the three-pound organ between our ears, with its billions of neurons and trillions of delicate connections. But it's a lot trickier to explain why we have a sense of self-awareness or to pin down precisely where that first memory of Mommy actually resides. As we age, we forget most of what we've experienced, yet there's still undeniable continuity: At 30, or 50, or 70, you will still be you. To preserve that elusive continuity of self, some far-thinking technologists are working on ways to keep your brain going--even beyond death.

Davina McCall says memory loss after brain surgery felt like'advanced Alzheimer's' TV presenter Davina McCall has said she experienced symptoms similar to advanced Alzheimer's following brain surgery. Speaking on Paloma Faith's podcast Mad, Sad and Bad, the 58-year-old described suffering from memory loss while recovering from an operation to remove a benign brain tumour in 2024. After I'd had my brain tumour taken out, I had advanced Alzheimer's, so I couldn't remember anything, the former Big Brother host told singer and Celebrity Traitors star Faith. When I came out of the operation, I didn't know I'd had an operation, she recalled. One regular member of staff would ask McCall every day if she could remember their name.

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To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. As Russia's attacks on Ukraine's cities intensify and autumn's cooler temperatures hint at another tough winter to come, Ukrainians are wrestling with how to meet the twin challenges ahead: Russian drone and missile strikes and the biting cold. It was a very difficult winter last year in Kyiv, says mother of two Mariia Shostak, who is now packing her bags and leaving her small flat. With prolonged periods of sub-zero temperatures and frequent power cuts brought about by Russia's attack on the country's power grid, last winter was one of the hardest so far. There were some days and weeks that were unbearable.

Optogenetics revolutionized neuroscience, but its origins come from an entirely brainless organism--an alga. Nobel Committee Secretary General Thomas Perlmann speaks to the media about this year's laureates--Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel--during the announcement of the winners of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The Karolinska Institute awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine to researchers Karl Deisseroth of Stanford University, Peter Hegemann of Humboldt University in Berlin, and Georg Nagel of the University of Würzburg. Their discoveries led to the development of optogenetics, a technique where scientists can turn individual nerve cells on or off using beams of light. According to Per Svenningsson, chair of the Nobel Committee for Medicine, "Optogenetics provides opportunities for mapping the brain in a way that we could once only dream of."

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US psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Deisseroth and his German colleagues Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have been awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work in the field of optogenetics. Their research has helped scientists learn more about the workings of the brain, to better understand how the human mind works. The Nobel Committee, external praised the trio for laying the foundation of a new era in neuroscience and revealing the neural circuits behind specific memories, feelings, and behaviours relevant for neurological and psychiatric disorders. In clinical medicine, researchers are using the method to try to restore sight in people with visual impairment . Optogenetics has fundamentally altered our understanding of the brain, the Nobel Assembly said.