One of the longest-running triathlons in the country, the Ironman 70.3 Eagleman welcomes competitors to the eastern shore of Maryland each June for a 1.2-mile swim in the Choptank River, a 56-mile ...

Dreaming serves to protect the brain’s visual cortex from being overtaken by other sensory inputs. The brain’s peak ...

Like many forty-something scientists working in labs today, Dr. David Eagleman remembers watching Carl Sagan on television as a kid and feeling his imagination expand. Each week on Cosmos (1980), ...

Before David Eagleman presents a single sentence of his own construction in “Livewired,” he lets it be known that the book, subtitled, “The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain,” offers more than ...

Neuroscientist Eagleman (The Brain) delivers an intellectually exhilarating look at neuroplasticity. In his view, the brain’s ability to reconfigure connections between its different areas in response ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Most neuroscientists believe that our "self" — the core thoughts, memories, and emotions that make us who we are — resides in the intricate ...

In 2000, 43 years after going totally blind at the age of three in a freak accident, a California man named Mike May had his sight restored in one eye by a pioneering stem cell procedure, coupled with ...

David Eagleman is about as close to a rock star that a neuroscientist can be. Exuberantly youthful yet simultaneously deeply wise, he speaks about his brain research at high-profile, non-academic ...