Neuroscience

A paralyzed man has regained the ability to walk smoothly using only his thoughts for the first time, researchers said on May 24, thanks to two implants that restored communication between brain and spinal cord.

The patient Gert-Jan, who did not want to reveal his surname, said the breakthrough had given him "a freedom that I did not have" before.

A Slovenian-German-Dutch team of scientists has identified a modification of a protein which plays a role in early-onset frontotemporal dementia, an important insight into the causes of the disease that could lead to the development of new strategies to treat it.

A Turkish neurology professor studying in the United States has received a $41 million government grant for her groundbreaking research on Alzheimer's disease and how it affects people of different ethnic groups.

Sleep disorders and post-traumatic stress disorders have become much more common after the deadly earthquakes that ripped through Türkiye's south last month, experts say.

The investigation of the untold tragedy of the deadly train crash at Tempe is in every way imperative.

As part of the re-emerging trend of printed photography, the industrious Greek photographer Angelos Christofilopoulos has recently published PAUSEIS - the silence in between - a monthly independent magazine.

Children's fixation on mobile phones and tablets begins before school and the impact on knowledge acquisition and concentration is already being noted by education and child health experts, who note that children lose interest in books, and complain of being bored when they are not "connected."

According to experts, it is best to go to sleep between 10 and 11 p.m., and this time of the evening is associated with a lower risk of developing heart disease.

Turkey's Central Anatolian province of Eskişehir has ranked first among the provinces whose residents have the highest average intelligence quotient [IQ] score, an online research has shown.

The country's 20 provinces with the highest average IQ score were determined with the data collected from over 276,000 users by Intelligence Test Center, a Turkish-based online platform.

The number of people living with dementia will increase by 2030 from the current 55 million to 78 million, and by 2050 - to 139 million. This is the forecast of the World Health Organization (WHO), published in Geneva.