For more than a century, maps of the brain have been based on how brain tissue looks under the microscope. These anatomical ...

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.

Across a typical lifetime, the human brain does not simply grow, peak, and decline. It passes through five sweeping ...

Researchers have discovered that the size of our frontal lobes alone does not account for the superior cognitive abilities of humans. In a study released on May 13, 2013 in the Proceedings of the ...