When the Senses Become Confused
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After a stroke, the brain tries to reorganize itself.  However, sometimes this process goes awry, leaving one woman to feel sounds on her skin.
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New research is challenging the idea that memory becomes more accurate with age.
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Scientists discover that the symptoms of a severe brain disorder similar to autism can be reversed.
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The case of a woman in a vegetative   state who appeared to play tennis in her head highlights one of   the key frustrations of doctors who treat such patients --   trying to figure out what is going on in someone else's brain.
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NEW YORK  - People who suffer from what was once called "hysteria" show altered patterns of brain activity connected to their symptoms, researchers reported Monday.
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NEW YORK  - People who see colorful &quot;auras&quot; in response to people or words may simply have a brain condition, not psychic powers, according to a new research report.
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Can a rational awareness of flavor chemistry and amine circuitry influence heighten our actual sensory experience of food?
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A new experiment demonstrates that knowing about a secret ingredient actually changes the experience of taste itself.
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Scientists say they have found the brain regions that help us to decide whether to look someone in the eye or look away.
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NEW YORK  - A new approach that permits   wider visual perception in patients with severely restricted   peripheral field allows quicker and more accurate ability to   detect objects outside their field of vision, suggest results   of a pilot study.
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Feel like a fish out of water? You may not be too far off.
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I will admit to being thoroughly confused. In fact, I feel a bit like Alice in Wonderland.
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Scientists have found a switch in the brain that appears to control anxiety and wakefulness.
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ÂThe lingering, perceived essence of anotherÂ sounds like the subject of a Proustian rumination. In fact, it is a line from an academic paper last April in The Journal of Marketing, by Jennifer J. Argo, Darren W. Dahl, and Andrea C. Morales. The authors examined a phenomenon that drives store managers crazy: consumers love to touch products in stores, but they hate buying things others have touched.
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Researchers have found a 'bottleneck' in the brain that appears to explain why we struggle to do two things at once.
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Sometimes, when you're living through an event, you can be too close to what's happening to realize the magnitude of it.
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Charles Bonnet syndrome causes people with vision problems to hallucinate.