A 4,000-year-old human brain has been found in the ancient settlement of Seyitomer Hoyuk in western Turkey, and its ...

Credit: Tom Jackson. The Brain: An Illustrated History of Neuroscience delves into the mystery of disorders and injuries that have occurred in the brain that gives us clues as to how the brain ...

H.M.'s Brain and the History of Memory In 1953, radical brain surgery was used on a patient with severe epilepsy. The operation on "H.M." worked, but left him with almost no long-term memory.

The history of neuroscience has proved the brain amazingly resilient, but one thing it cannot stand is pressure, and the secondary effects of trauma, like swelling, often prove more deadly than ...

“Brain: The Inside Story” opens on Saturday and runs through Aug. 14 at the American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West and 79th Street; (212) 769-5100, amnh.org.

In a nutshell Scientists discovered a human brain from 79 CE Vesuvius eruption transformed into glass—the only known case of natural organic glass preservation in history. The brain vitrified at ...

In European Art: A Neuroarthistory, his latest, expertly illustrated work, Onians has applied his ideas about how the workings of the brain relate to artistic expression to the entire spectrum of ...

The Checkered History of Military Brain Tampering. For a quick and historic tour of the Defense Department’s interest in brain hacking, start with this 1973 report, ...

Lessons from brain science — and history's peacemakers — for resolving conflicts. November 4, 2023 6:00 AM ET. Yuki Noguchi ...

The family of Mary Sara, an 18-year-old Sami woman, was finally able to bury her brain next to the rest of her remains — 90 years after she died.

Mike Webster’s brain sat for two weeks in a white plastic bucket of formaldehyde at the morgue. When it was firm enough, Omalu pulled it out and put took a scalpel to the frontal lobe, cutting a ...