Handwriting engages motor, language, and attention systems, activating the brain more fully than typing. Writing by hand ...

In a sweeping new map of the adult Drosophila melanogaster brain, researchers at the University of Oxford found that mature neurons still carry a molecular record of where they came from and when they ...

Picture this: You're signing a credit card receipt at the bank, using one of those pens attached to a short chain. As a left-handed person, you awkwardly ...

Sixteen-year-old Frankie Allocca's mother said he'll be able to walk again, but it will take time. Allocca is recovering at the hospital after falling 50 feet down a shaft of the Queensboro Bridge on ...

The idea that the human brain is divided into a logical left half and a creative right half has become one of the most enduring metaphors in psychology and popular culture. While this simplification ...

Dr. Ashwin Amurthur (Neurology): A 57-year-old woman was admitted to this hospital because of persistent visual disturbances involving the right visual field, episodes of shaking of the right arm and ...

Scientists have discovered that the specific way an aging brain changes shape, such as its overall structure shifting and regions pulling apart, can serve as an early warning sign for dementia.

Around the world, many teachers still believe longstanding—but long-debunked—myths about learning and cognition. A study published this month in the journal Trends in Neuroscience and Education finds ...

Approximately 10% of the human population is left-handed. Among them, one in five exhibits a peculiar brain phenomenon known as atypical language lateralization. While most people attribute their ...

How you process language is influenced by how each side of your brain developed in early life. Peter Dazeley/The Image Bank via Getty Images Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic ...

Hysell V Oviedo receives funding from NIH. Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic information into parallel channels – linguistic, emotional and musical – and acts as a biological ...

Left cerebral hemisphere of an adult male buried at the site of the former Blackberry Hill Hospital (Bristol, UK). The surface of the brain’s visible convolutions is stained red with iron oxides.