The bizarre-looking ‘homunculus’ is one of neuroscience’s most fundamental diagrams. Found in countless textbooks, it depicts a deformed constellation of body parts mapped onto a narrow strip of the ...

Understanding neural connections between brain and body and basic exercise can help cure back pain and rebalance lifestyle As a child I was fascinated by the Numbskulls cartoon strip that was ...

Last week I wrote about a crazy diagram called the “homunculus,” which shows how your body would look if each part were scaled to the amount of real estate it occupies in the brain: Your hands and ...