Developed in the 1970s by self-help guru Richard Bandler and linguist John Grinder, due to their mutual disdain for traditional talk therapy, NLP is a “mishmash of a bunch of different techniques,” as ...

Imagine a line of affordable toys controlled by the player’s brainwaves. By interpreting biosignals picked up by the dry ...

Two people with paralysis in their hands were able to temporarily regain their sense of touch and feel the shape of objects, thanks to electrical brain stimulation. The approach could one day help ...

The mind-controlled exoskeleton developed by Miguel Nicolelis and his colleagues will allow a paralyzed teenager to make the ceremonial first kick of the 2014 World Cup. Danilo Borges/World Cup Portal ...

Brainwashing is often viewed as a Cold War relic—think '60s films like "The Manchurian Candidate" and "The IPCRESS File." But Rebecca Lemov, professor of the history of science, argues in her recently ...

During the Korean War, Americans became obsessed with mind control. Following the bizarre confessions of American POWs in North Korea, in which captured military personnel admitted to heinous (and ...