Jacinta O'Shea from the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences explains how stimulation of the brains of stroke patients can cause long-lasting improvements. Every year thousands of people are ...

Check out the dog, Barley, in this video. Notice how he doesn't seem interested in the food on the left side of his bowl. Perhaps he's blind in his left eye? But that can't be the case. Close your ...

A new study shows that drowsiness alters awareness in much the same way as a common form of brain damage Damage to certain parts of the brain can lead to a bizarre syndrome called hemispatial neglect, ...

Check out the dog, Barley, in this video: YouTube link. Notice how he doesn't seem interested in the food on the left side of his bowl. Perhaps he's blind in his left eye? But that can't be the case.

The patient demanded to know whose left arm was lying in the hospital bed with him. "He would pick it up and throw it out of bed. The arm would come back and hit him in the chest," recalls Dr. Kenneth ...

(via SciShow Psych) Losing half of the world sounds like a weird, abstract dream state. But for those that develop hemispatial neglect, that’s exactly what happens, without them even realizing it.

Damage to particular parts of the brain can cause spatial confusion and even eliminate awareness of areas of space around the body. The brain regions responsible for spatial awareness, however, are ...