On the outside, they all seem like normal people. You have a motel manager, a police detective, a doctor and a banker. But they hide a dark side. Just how does the brain of a real psychopath work?

Billy Joel, the legendary singer, was diagnosed with normal pressure hydrocephalus, affecting his hearing, vision, and ...

To be sure, most psychopaths neither ... somatosensory and emotional brain regions was much lower in the patients with psychopathy than in the normal subjects. The theory seemed right: their ...

The kaleidoscopic whirl of colors they recorded is essentially a heat map of brain changes, with the red, orange and yellow hues reflecting a significant departure from normal activity patterns.

The brain floats in a sea of fluid that cushions it against injury, supplies it with nutrients and carries away waste. Disruptions to the normal ebb and flow of the fluid have been linked to ...

The psychedelic drug psilocybin dramatically changes how collections of nerve cells work in the brain, eliminating normal communication between brain regions, a new brain scanning study published ...

less has been known about the key milestones of normal brain aging. To find out more, an international team of researchers collected brain scan data from multiple studies representing 101,457 ...

Amy Knight, Ph.D., associate professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Neurology, discusses why and how chronic stress can affect one’s brain and overall health. What is ...