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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Wilder Penfield, a pioneering brain surgeon, mapped the motor cortex using mild electric current. Wilder Penfield took the next exploratory voyage into the brain starting in the 1940s. While ...

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