In The Athlete's Way, I present a revolutionary split-brain model that I coined "Up Brain/Down Brain." I am not a neuroscientist, but through lengthy conversations with my father (who was a ...

The cerebellum is the down brain, the southern hemisphere in the cranial globe as it were, based on its position south of the midbrain. The simple names down brain-up brain may sound grammatically ...

In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators report that only a small section of ...

But researchers were concerned about whether this procedure might have other, less desirable effects. What happens when the right and left sides of the cerebral cortex—responsible for an enormous ...

Consciousness has long resisted neat explanations, but a growing body of research suggests the problem may lie in how we ...