A new study is the first to show that two of our most sophisticated cognitive functions, using and understanding language and being able to sense how other people feel, have distinct origins in the ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. Brain tumours such as gliomas infiltrate surrounding brain tissue, including areas involved in language function. Although ...

One of the most persistent neuroscience myths (neuromyth) is that the "left brain" is universally the seat of language and logical reasoning; while the "right brain" facilitates creativity and ...

A stroke in a baby -- even a big one -- does not have the same lasting impact as a stroke in an adult. A study found that a decade or two after a 'perinatal' stroke damaged the left 'language' side of ...

These are individual scans of two healthy controls and two individuals with a left-hemisphere (LH) perinatal stroke. The orange/yellow activation shows the normal language areas of the left hemisphere ...

The brain is key to our existence, but there’s a long way to go before neuroscience can truly capture its staggering capacity. For now, though, our Brain Control series explores what we do know about ...

To the Editor: To preserve language function during glioma resection in or near language areas, Sanai and colleagues, including Berger (Jan. 3 issue), 1 advocate negative mapping through ...