Many patients suffer from epilepsy that cannot be controlled by current medications. Surgical removal of epileptogenic brain regions is effective in only about half of cases, and not all patients are ...

The human brain, as the seat of mental life—from the most complicated intellectual processes down to routine and unconscious bodily control—is necessarily enormously complex. The largest part of the ...

People who lose their visual imagination after a stroke share damage to a single neural circuit. A new analysis maps these ...

Differences in brain shape between a present-day human (left, in blue) and a Neanderthal from La Chapelle-aux-Saints (right, in red). Source: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology/Simon ...

For years, many people on social media have perpetuated the idea that the brain, especially the frontal lobe, does not fully develop until age 25. But new research suggests brain development may ...