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“The Mind’s Eye” by Oliver Sacks was published in the print edition of the July 28, 2003, issue of The New Yorker.

The hit Netflix documentary - Maternal Instinct - tidies a far more complicated story.

Why are some of us terrible at recognizing faces?

Oliver Sacks on Clive Wearing, an English musician struck by a devastating brain infection that left him with retrograde amnesia and a memory span of only seconds.

Atul Gawande on an itch that won’t go away.

When Theresa Duncan, 40, took her own life on July 10, followed a week later by her boyfriend, Jeremy Blake, 35, their friends were stunned and the press was fascinated: what had destroyed this glamorous couple, stars of New York’s multi-media art world, still madly in love after 12 years?

She escaped a crazed psychopath at 16. Decades later, as the BTK serial killer terrorizes Wichita, she has to run for her life again. The…

The mirror, an object of ancient fascination, has become a powerful tool for scientists to explore how the brain interprets (and misinterprets) information.