Lefty or righty? A new study links a larger anteri...  ...(and undoubtedly controversial) study, it's their brain anatomy:Cognitive neuroscientist Ryota Kanai and...  ...etic resonance imaging to get a look inside their brains . In a paper published online today in Current Bio...  ...p though. When the researche...

Literature is filled with examples of the pain of...  ...eak, but leave it to science to prove that to our brain , the pain of getting dumped and getting burned is...  ...ging (fMRI), researchers have found that the same brain networks that are activated when you're burned by...  ...a lover who has spurned you....

(YouTube link)The ninth song in th...  ...ize scientists telling us about the amazing human brain . This creation features Robert Winston, Vilayanur...

Brain scanning technology is teaching us how very versa...  ...g technology is teaching us how very versatile or brains are. For example, what is happening in the visual...  ...linguistic exercises show that those parts of our brains are put to work for other tasks! In the...

The U.S.A. Memory Championship pits mental athlete...  ...like decks of playing cards but to etch into the brain foundational texts and ideas. It was an attrac...

The following is an article from the science humor...  ...e acquired detailed knowledge of the parts of the brain engaged in many cognitive functions. So far, h...

Got a crotchety old guy who kept telling you that...  ...be onto something: scientists discovered that our brains are actually shrinking! The downsizing of human brains is an evolutionary fact that took science writer...  ...ry up to 20,000 years ago, she learned. Then, the brains...

Imagine living without fear - and I mean any fear....  ...inating subject of a medical investigation on the brain 's response to fearful stimuli:S.M. also had expos...

Q: Does rubbing a boo-boo really make it better?...  ...t better? A: Yes! Pain signals are sent to the brain by special receptors, called nociceptors, which a...  ...we need to look at the thalamus, the part of the brain that interprets pain signals. If the signals last...

(YouTube link) The structure of your individu...  ...YouTube link) The structure of your individual brain has a lot to do with how you perceive optical ill...  ...ze of each subject's visual cortex -the amount of brain matter devoted to processing vision. The researc...  ...The researchers then took MRIs...