When pain strikes from multiple sources—such as a paper cut followed by contact with hot water—the experience can feel disproportionately intense. But is this agony merely additive, or does the brain ...

Certain drugs can produce an out-of-body experience, so can a pulse of electricity if it's sent to the right place in the brain. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports on a brain area that seems to keep us ...

Dr. Josef Parvizi remembers meeting a man with epilepsy whose seizures were causing some very unusual symptoms. "He came to my clinic and said, 'My sense of self is changing,'" says Parvizi, a ...

The precuneus emerged as a key hub in the multimodal pain integration process. The study observed a significant positive correlation between the magnitude of the blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) ...