We all know what bodies look like from the outside. This cortical homunculus is how your brain sees your body from the inside. In the 1930s, Wilder Penfield performed surgeries on patients with ...

For almost a century, budding neuroscientists have been taught that the headband-like strip of brain tissue over our ears ...

Some things look weird. Others have peculiar characteristics that are not at all visually obvious, like extreme density. Still others earn their strangeness points solely because of bad behavior. It ...

Understanding neural connections between brain and body and basic exercise can help cure back pain and rebalance lifestyle As a child I was fascinated by the Numbskulls cartoon strip that was ...

Rolf Degen has an interesting post on the question of how much of the brain is devoted to processing touch stimuli from the penis. The Fake Homunculus: A new book about sex depicts a beefed-up ...