In a major shift for how mental health conditions might be treated, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved ...

Patients with multiple sclerosis had better problem solving ability and response time after training with a technology called transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), according to a new study ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters. At Vox, our mission is to help you make sense of the world — and that work has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our own. We ...

Did you know that by attaching a 9-volt battery to your scalp -- with the help of some electrodes and some wet sponges (or conducting gel) -- you can more than double your brain's learning rate and ...

Transcranial direct brain stimulation, or tDCS, appears to have hit the big time. By big time we mean that zapping the skull (and presumably the brain) with electric current is now a science that ...

Last October, Matt Herich was listening to the news while he drove door to door delivering pizzas. A story came on the radio about a technology that sends an electric current through your brain to ...