On the unexpected longevity of a very strange theory.
Kim Suozzi, who died at 23, chose to have her brain preserved for future revival. It’s not as far-fetched a prospect as you’d think.
The intricacies of a delicate operation.
Excerpted from Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
Chronicling 1,541 days with a car accident survivor.
Lonnie Sue Johnson is an artist who can’t retain a memory for longer than a minute or two.
The railroad foreman’s brain was pierced by a tamping iron. He lived to tell the tale.
Inside the minds of two people, one with the world’s best memory and one with the world’s worst.
A profile of cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter, who has spent the last 30 years trying to replicate the human mind.
What neuroscience is learning from code-breakers and thieves.
“In the computer age, it is not hard to imagine how a computing machine might construct, store and spit out the information that ‘I am alive, I am a person, I have memories, the wind is cold, the grass is green,’ and so on. But how does a brain become aware of those propositions? ”