A French civil servant functioned normally with 90 percent of his brain missing. How is this possible? Research reveals ...

Because the cerebellum has long been known for coordinating the timing and precision of fluid muscle movements, it was important for me to position cerebellar motor functions as a central player when ...

Bodily functions rise and decline with age, and the brain is no exception. However, the exact trajectory of our brain activity during controlled behavior remains unclear. A recent study published in ...

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Coimbra have discovered that the human brain organizes hand movements much like an alphabet — combining a small set of simple motions ...

Akshay Jagadeesh, an Indian-origin neuroscientist, has recently joined Sam Altman’s OpenAI as a research resident, marking a ...

In 1785 English philosopher Jeremy Bentham designed the perfect prison: Cells circle a tower from which an unseen guard can observe any inmate at will. As far as a prisoner knows, at any given time, ...