The Brain on the Stand
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How neuroscience is transforming the legal system.
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Dec. 6, 2004 -- A mind-operated computer may one day help people with spinal cord injuries communicate. It may sound like science fiction, but such a device already exists.
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Science & environment: Political differences might be explained by a fundamental variation in how our brains are 'wired' to process information, study says.
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Researchers expose differences in brain activity between people who fib and those who don't. Brain scans reveal that it really is easier to tell the truth.
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Scientists develop an electronic device to test for serious head injuries.
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Researchers in England and Switzerland use video cameras and virtual-reality goggles to make subjects observe "themself" from elsewhere in the room. They learn: "The brain can trick itself."
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Ever wonder why fear-mongering seems to work so well at the pollsâwhile appeals to reason often leave the electorate cold? A new book applies neuroscience to politics to figure out why the Democrats struggle to push the buttons in voters' brains.
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Challenging decades of scientific belief that the decoding of sound originates from a preferred side of the brain, UCLA and University of Arizona scientists have demonstrated that right-left differences for the auditory processing of sound start at the ear
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Experts pinpoint a brain part that may hold the key to recognising places we have previously been.
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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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NEW YORK  - Chemotherapy causes transient changes in sensitive areas of the brain, which may partly account for some of the previously reported cognitive difficulties reported by patients and referred to as "chemobrain," Japanese investigators report in the journal Cancer.
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NEW YORK  - Patients in a minimally  conscious state (MCS) -- those with severe brain damage who  demonstrate intermittent awareness of their environment -- may  retain some degree of cognitive function, even though they  can't follow simple instructions or communicate, the findings  from a small study suggest.
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Telling people off activates a part of the brain linked to enjoyment and satisfaction, say scientists.
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Having a sound sleep after cramming for exams consolidates that learning, a new research has revealed. Neurologist Philippe Peigneux and his colleagues analysed brain activity in sleeping volunteers and found
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Researchers coax cells in a petri dish into learning to guide a plane. The project should lead to a better understanding of how the brain works. By Lakshmi Sandhana.
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How to prevent a sticky gunk from clogging up, and probably killing, the brain cells of Alzheimer&#39;s patients is the newest focus in the fight against the disease.
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Turning specific cells on and off in fly brains can help researchers understand how individual parts of a complex system affect the whole animal.