Nothing teaches us how the brain works like neurosurgery, maintains Theodore Schwartz, MD, of Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. "We tend to think about neuroscientists, neurologists, and ...

In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators report that only a small section of ...

How did a surgery designed to treat epilepsy end up challenging the very idea of free will? This video explores the split-brain experiments, their astonishing results, and what they mean for our ...

SEATTLE — Brain scientists at the University of Washington have used an old-fashioned parlor game in a novel way to prove that two people's brains can be linked across the Internet — an experiment ...