Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The brain’s map of the body in the primary somatosensory cortex remains unchanged after amputation. (Zephyr/Science Source) A ...

In “The Body Holds the Healing,” I described a concept that is central to expressive arts and somatic therapies—restorative embodiment. In contrast to other somatic therapies, restorative embodiment ...

Music holds an important place in human culture, and we've all felt the swell of emotion that music can inspire unlike almost anything else. But what is it exactly about music that can bring on such ...

Our brain maps out our body to facilitate accurate motor control; disorders of this body map result in motor deficits. For a century, the body map has been thought to have applied to all types of ...

The sun rises in the east. Check. Exercise is good for you. Yep: Check again. Research definitively confirms that muscle-moving, calorie-burning activity slows the advance of disease, improves ...

A brain-imaging study of people with amputated arms has upended a long-standing belief: that the brain’s map of the body reorganizes itself to compensate for missing body parts. Previous research had ...