In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa ...

Your brain is constantly juggling information that arrives in a flash with thoughts that unfold over seconds, minutes, or ...

The particular kind of waves that the brain produces during sleep, which repeatedly sweep the surface of the cerebral cortex, travel through the anatomical "highways" that connect distant areas of the ...

Stay on top of what’s happening in the Bay Area with essential Bay Area news stories, sent to your inbox every weekday. The Bay Bay Area-raised host Ericka Cruz Guevarra brings you context and ...

Just a few fibres are enough for the two hemispheres of the brain to communicate with each other. This was shown by a new international study led by Professor Dr Michael Miller (University of ...

Our brains quickly assess food, noting taste, health, and familiarity all at once. A study in 'Appetite' reveals this ...

Severance, which imagines a world where a person’s work and personal lives are surgically separated, will soon return to Apple TV+ for a second season. While the concept of this gripping piece of ...

The two hemispheres of the brain communicate via a bundle of fibers called the corpus callosum. For some people with epilepsy, seizures can quickly spread to the other through this region. But if that ...

In Nobel Prize research beginning in the 1960s, Roger W. Sperry and colleagues studied the effects of cutting the forebrain commissures in patients as a radical treatment for intractable epilepsy.

An Indiana boy is finally leading the life of a typical kid following exceedingly rare surgery that permanently split the two sides of his brain. A newly developed procedure to sever the right and ...