The brain’s hemispheres are specialized for efficiency. Modern neuroscience shows lateralization enhances function without ...

Traditional stroke rehabilitation therapy focuses on restoring strength and movement to the more impaired side of the body, ...

While there’s no cure for the movement disorder, doctors have found new treatment plans that can help delay and maybe even ...

Think your cerebellum only coordinates fluid movements? New 2026 research reveals how your "little brain" also creates the ...

Navigating the world is no mean feat, especially when the world pushes back. For instance, airflow hitting a fly on its right side can, after a turn, become a headwind. To stay on course, the fly's ...

Perhaps the most compelling finding from a UW Medicine study to help stroke victims recover hand movement is that if its first subject applied to be part of the study today, he would not qualify.

Some patients have pointed to severe undisclosed side effects, including blindness, loss of brain function and organ damage.

The first node sits in the peripheral nervous system. Sensory neurons in the vagus nerve detect damage in the heart and send signals upward. The researchers focused on a subset of vagal sensory ...

To navigate, the brain must convert changing sensations into a map-like sense of the world, which remains stable as the body moves. A new study finds that the fly brain sometimes performs the ...

Brain scans show a spot in the cerebellum attuned specifically to words, expanding on studies that point to the region's ...

Doctors in multiple states are searching for answers for a local 6-year-old girl, as the right side of her body appears to be shrinking.