By doing so, he discovered that weak electric shocks, when applied to areas at the back of the brain, caused the patients' eyes to move. Later, around 1870, Hitzig teamed up with another doctor ...

What happens to the brain as people transition from alive to ... had near-death experiences who said they saw their entire life history play out in a rapid manifestation of autobiographical ...

This unique brain could rewrite the story of one of history's most famous natural disasters — and help protect people against this little-understood phenomenon during future volcanic eruptions, say ...

Scientists found glass fragments inside the skull of a young man who died in Herculaneum when Mt. Vesuvius exploded in 79 CE.

Michael Mosley embarks on three journeys to understand science's last great frontier - the human mind - as he traces the history of the attempts to understand and manipulate the brain.

Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, have studied the impact of two brain areas on the nature of memory content. The team from the Department of Neurophysiology showed in rats how the ...

Wayne State University researchers are using photoacoustic imaging to observe brain activity and, in the process, discovering ...

World-renowned pathologist and researcher Richard Scolyer is facing an operation to explore fears of a lethal tumour growing ...