One of the more horrifying disorders one can exper...  ...uo;—but this time while the patient is in a brain scanner . If the motor cortex is activated, we know that t...  ...the patient’s family can do. With different brain scanners , I can find out where brain damag...

An experiment from a team at Imperial College Lond...  ...College London studied the effects of LSD on the brain by giving the drug to 20 experienced volunteers a...  ...ng the drug to 20 experienced volunteers and then scanning their brains . You might wonder why this hasn&rsq...

Peter Watts recalls a study in which an adult had...  ...ter Watts recalls a study in which an adult had a brain scan and was found to have almost no brain at all. The skull was filled with cerebrospinal f...  ...th cerebrospinal fluid except for a thin layer of brain tissue ar...

The most famous brain in neuroscience? That would belong to Henry Molai...  ...th neurosurgeons began in 1953, when he underwent brain surgery to relieve frequent chronic seizures. The...  ...equent chronic seizures. They removed part of his brain , which cured him but left him...

Neuroscientist James Fallon knows what a psychopat...  ...oscientist James Fallon knows what a psychopathic brain scan looks like, because he's studied the differences...  ...oks like, because he's studied the differences in brain activity between normal brains and those of peo...

Can true love last forever? Scientists at Stony Br...  ...orever? Scientists at Stony Brook University used brain scans to find that indeed, true love can last a lifetim...  ...o find that indeed, true love can last a lifetime: Scanning the brains of people who have been togeth...