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Veronica Paulus is a former STAT intern supported by the Harvard University Institute of Politics. Neuroscientists have long held that the brain reorganizes itself when a body part is amputated. A new ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers have found that the brain holds a ‘map’ of the body that remains unchanged even after a limb has been amputated, contrary to the prevailing view that it ...

Researchers have completed the first-ever activity map of a mammalian brain in a groundbreaking duo of studies, and it has rewritten scientists' understanding of how decisions are made. The project, ...

A unique study imaging brain activity in children born with upper limb difference—for example, one hand—has shown the amazing ...

For centuries, philosophers have asked: where, in the mind, does a decision begin? Is there a moment we can point to and say—there, that’s when the mind… made up its mind? Neuroscience has long tried ...

The world is constantly changing. In a paper in Nature, Courellis et al. 1 explore, in impressive detail, how the human brain makes generalizations that enable it to adapt to change. As the seasons ...

The first brain-wide map of regions that are active in prairie voles during mating and pair bonding reveal that bonding voles experience a storm of brain activity distributed across 68 distinct brain ...