In Nobel Prize research beginning in the 1960s, Roger W. Sperry and colleagues studied the effects of cutting the forebrain commissures in patients as a radical treatment for intractable epilepsy.

The idea that people are either “left-brained” and analytical or “right-brained” and creative has become deeply embedded in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This theory has led to the belief that some of us are left-brained thinkers (you lead with your head) while others are ...

Just a few fibers are enough for the two hemispheres of the brain to communicate with each other. This was shown by a new international study led by Professor Dr. Michael Miller (University of ...

Does your brain really reveal the metaphysical? Here’s what brain science can—and cannot—tell us about immortality.

Somewhere between art class and algebra, most of us learn–probably after struggling in one area and excelling in the other–which “side” of our brain is dominant. You are either left brained or right ...

In a study published in Nature Genetics, Dr Saumya Jamuar, co-founder of Global Gene Corp and a visiting scientist at Harvard Medical School, under the supervision of Prof Christopher Walsh and A/Prof ...