Category: Medicine
One Brain, Two Consciousnesses?
The idea that split-brain surgery can create two separate minds is immortal — in science fiction.
At NIH, Bhattacharya Wants to Restore Open Inquiry
Restoring open discussion is certainly worth a try. Science advances more from doubt than from certainty.
The Undiscovered Country… Discovered?
Such cases may have been around since prehistoric times. Some researchers even suggest that they may have given rise to the popular artistic images of angels.
Implant Lets a Disabled Woman Speak Her Thoughts
The key benefit of the system is that it is much faster than traditional methods, cutting the time from internal speech to audible speech to three seconds.
Debating the Legacy of Neuroscientist Wilder Penfield
How much more evidence is necessary to draw the scientific inference that activation of brain networks is insufficient to generate abstract thought?