Since opening in 2011, the institute has amassed more than 3,000 of these post-mortem brains that they are studying to better understand the biological mechanisms behind such neuropsychiatric ...

Contemporary writers are fond of exposing their characters' brains–to examine fundamental mysteries about life: consciousness, memory, emotion, empathy. In other words, what does it feel like to be ...

You're back in school and suddenly have to take a test, despite not having been present to learn any of the material. Your teeth are suddenly falling out. You run into an acquaintance you haven't seen ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 119, No. 4 (January 25, 2022), pp. 1-12 (12 pages) To further advance functional MRI (fMRI)–based brain science, ...

RACINE — Kids from Goodland Montessori got a chance last week to get hands-on with science. Third, fourth and fifth graders from the school, 4800 Graceland Blvd., were visited by juniors and seniors ...

That’s what they say, right? It’s something I’m sure is true as often as not, but I believe such encounters should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. That belief has only been validated upon ...

About noon most days, the Lieber Institute for Brain Development in East Baltimore gets a case - that is, a brain. It arrives in an inconspicuous red cooler. Almost immediately, resident ...