Mr. Reid is the former Americas editor at The Economist and the author of books including “Forgotten Continent: A History of the New Latin America.” Not so long ago, a U.S. military operation to oust ...

Compared with healthy control participants, children with ADHD had increased functional connectivity in the right precentral gyrus, which is associated with motor-related neural activity.

Language policing. Cancel culture. Victimhood contests and cultural grievances. Despite attacking the left for partaking in such practices, there’s an emerging set of individuals on the right who have ...

In a new proteomics extravaganza, scientists have unearthed groups of proteins that appear to be at the heart of Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis. As described in Cell on September 25, scientists led ...

Dysphagia is a common neurologic deficit following ischemic stroke. As a result, patients often require percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube placement for safe maintenance of sufficient ...

Parents strongly influence their children’s cognitive development, but how these skills are transmitted through generations remains unclear. Using brain imaging, we examined whether there was ...

Every day, we speak thousands of words, without rehearsal or hesitation. We order coffee. We soothe a child. We describe a memory, tell a joke, argue, confess, comfort, persuade. To us, speech feels ...

A new study from UC San Francisco challenges the traditional view of how the brain strings sounds together to form words and orchestrates the movements to pronounce them. Speaking is one of the most ...

Hysell V Oviedo receives funding from NIH. Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic information into parallel channels – linguistic, emotional and musical – and acts as a biological ...

Danielle Lee Tomson receives funding from Craig Newmark Philanthropies and the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation for her work at CIP. Kate Starbird receives funding from the National Science ...

Auditory corollary discharge in the human starts in the bottom, or ventral, part of the motor cortex, a subregion called the precentral gyrus (red), and then move down across its folds to a ...