Science

I never once asked, “Why me?” Instead, I say, “Better me than someone else.” Every year more than 795,000 Americans have a stroke and 130,000 of them will die from it, according to the American Stroke Association. That’s one American who dies from stroke every four minutes.

One of the most interesting behavioral phenomena in neurology is the astounding ability of some people with severe aphasia to sing words in song before they can speak them normally. Aphasia is the language impairment that results from acquired damage to the “zone of language,” typically located

Although many philosophers used to dismiss the relevance of neuroscience on grounds that what mattered was the software not the hardware, they have increasingly come to recognize that understanding how the brain works is essential to understanding the mind. Patricia Smith Churchland

Dr. Beatrice de Gelder, a cognitive and affective neuroscientist based in the Netherlands, has conducted extensive research on the phenomenon known as “blindsight.” This refers to visual abilities in persons with cortical blindness. Formerly a senior scientist at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging