This video explains the complicated neural systems that allow us to perform simple movements like wiggling our toes.

Your eyes can play tricks on you, and visual illusions take advantage of these glitches in our perception.

Where do love ballads and beautiful poetry come from? What about the fear of heights and spiders? It’s all in the brain! In this lesson, explore the wonders of emotions and the brain with your students.

Are you really in control of the decisions you make?

We are able to empathize thanks in large part to mirror neurons, a special type of motor neurons that help us recognize emotions.

Concussions don't always show up on brain scans. But, whether or not we can see it, the damage is there.

Located deep within the brain, the limbic system contains brain structures crucial for memory, emotion, and basic body functions.

Touch a hot pan and you’ll reflexively withdraw your hand. That’s because a special type of pain-sensing nerves transmits a jolt of pain, which acts like a warning signal to prevent further injury.

While unpleasant, pain exists for a reason: it directs our attention to an injury so we can take care of it and prevent further damage.

Originally performed to relieve the symptoms of epilepsy, split-brain experiments in the 1960s revealed that the left and right sides of the brain were good at different tasks.