I’ve cut brains in half, excised tumours – even removed entire lobes. The illusion of the self and free will survives it all ...

Imagine seeing a furry, four-legged animal that meows. Mentally, you know what it is, but the word "cat" is stuck on the tip ...

Scientists are developing a brain-computer interface to help patients with Broca’s aphasia regain speech. Broca’s aphasia ...

In Georgia, a 15-centimeter living parasite was found in the human brain. "This is the first confirmed case of a live ...

As The New York Times reported last week, the bipartisan congressional Commission on Combating Synthetic Opioid Trafficking said in a 2022 report that, based primarily on data on seizures ...

During his first term as president, Mr. Trump claimed that land seizures from white South Africans were rife, a false narrative pushed by some right-wing groups in South Africa. Mr. Trump said on ...

Rodrigo Braga, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Ken and Ruth Davee Department of Neurology's Division of Epilepsy and Clinical ... away from this sequence: the parietal memory network—located ...

After the fourth operation (which removed half of his brain and cured his epilepsy), astrocytes grown from the temporal lobe and the frontal/parietal lobe (a brain region next to the temporal lobe ...

Amy Werbel receives funding from the State University of New York and the UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement. Four photographs by celebrated artist Sally Mann were recently ...

They can include things like changes in emotions, thinking and sensations. What happens during a focal seizure depends on which area (lobe) of the brain is affected, and whether the seizure spreads to ...