In a study published Feb. 18 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team reports that a small, buried brain region called the insula contains its own organized map of the body.

Many families face the challenge of drug-resistant epilepsy, questioning the transition from medication to surgery.

Bruce Willis and Emma Heming Willis's journey together has taken on a new dimension with his diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia. Emma reflects on how their love, cultivated over more than two ...

People who lose their visual imagination after a stroke share damage to a single neural circuit. A new analysis maps these ...

Neuroimaging suggests that hearing voices in borderline personality disorder is tied to reduced gray matter in specific brain ...

Mayo Clinic researchers have identified a hidden "movement map" deep within the brain—a discovery that could help surgeons ...

Dementia often affects memory, thinking, behavior and daily functioning — now, a new case study reveals a novel symptom that shouldn’t be overlooked. Nearly 7 million Americans and more than 55 ...

Mayo Clinic researchers have identified a hidden "movement map" deep within the brain - a discovery that could help surgeons reduce side effects from epilepsy procedures and guide future treatments ...

Being right- or left-handed is a familiar fact about yourself you likely don’t think about much on a day-to-day basis. However, your handedness affects how you interact with the world. For many people ...

Being right- or left-handed is a familiar fact about yourself that you likely don't think about much on a day-to-day basis. However, your handedness affects how you interact with the world.

What started as a routine cleaning job turned into a once-in-a-lifetime discovery for Jennifer Dowker, a boat captain and ...