The use of solitary confinement in prisons has grown since the 1970s. Criminologist Keramet Reiter talks with us about the psychological effects that long-term isolation has on our minds.

All of the nerve cells — and virtually every connection between them — in a larval fruit fly brain have now been mapped, researchers report in the March 10 Science. It’s the most complex ...

It took centuries for scientists to figure out that the brain’s frontal cortex, which sits just behind the forehead, governs emotions and reasoning. One important early clue came from an ...

Her hole, filled with brain and spinal fluid, was where the parietal lobe would have been. Had she been missing her frontal lobe, she indeed would have been developmentally disabled, or dead.

Duke Department of Neurology. "New form of brain analysis engages whole brain for the first time." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2020 / 08 / 200826113710.htm (accessed June 2, 2025).

Brain tumor removal through hole smaller than dime. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2013 / 11 / 131104091714.htm. Houston Methodist.

When the process is complete, the flower-shaped array covers a 4-cm (1.6-in) wide area of the brain's cortex, even though it went through a hole just half that size.

Baylor College of Medicine researchers in the Tolias Lab and the Xiaolong Jiang Lab are part of a global collaborative led by the Allen Institute to map the whole human brain. In what is being called ...