What Happens to a Person Who Is Physically Incapable of Learning That Something Is Dangerous
One woman's inability to feel fear made her the most important patient in the study of emotion
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The Game That Tests Whether Your Brain Can Read and Remember at the Same Time
This Week's Train Your Brain Game
A Neurosurgeon Removed a Tiny Curved Structure From Both Sides of a Patient’s Brain and Accidentally Discovered How Memories Are Made
A man who spent 55 years unable to remember anything that happened after his surgery became the most studied patient in neuroscience and proved that the brain uses completely separate systems for memo
25 Words, 2 Rules, 90 Seconds. How Fast Can Your Brain Switch?
This Week's Train Your Brain Game: The Category Switch
A Completely Blind Man Walked Down a Cluttered Hallway and Dodged Every Obstacle Without Knowing They Were There
A man lost all conscious sight after two strokes but could still navigate a hallway full of obstacles, proving the brain has an ancient backup vision system that works in total darkness.
The Semantic Sprint: How Fast Can Your Brain Find the Words?
This Week's Train Your Brain Game
The Brain Condition Where You Sound Normal But Nothing You Say Makes Sense
Inside Wernicke's area, the brain region that matches speech to meaning and leaves patients talking in fluent gibberish when it fails.
The Rule Shift: The Cholesterol Playbook
This Week's Train Your Brain Game
What Happens When Your Brain Deletes an Entire Side of Reality?
A stroke to the right parietal lobe can erase the left side of everything, and patients will not know anything is missing.
The Forbidden Word: How Many Times Can You Catch It?
This Week's Train Your Brain Game