Researchers at University College London, in the UK, have discovered that the brains of artists who paint with their feet have specialized areas linked to each individual toe. That makes them ...

MY WIFE, WHOSE FEET are like delicious little sandwiches, sits down cross-legged on the den floor to paint her toenails. Now, I’m not even sure why human beings even have toenails. Toenails don’t ...

If you use your feet like hands from birth, the brain will create a different "map" of the toes that's more like the one it has for the fingers, new research reveals. That's the case with Tom Yendell ...

For people born with hands, there’s a map in the brain that corresponds to each one. And that map is detailed, including a dedicated region for each finger. When a finger touches something, those ...

He was left crippled from the neck down as a baby, but N Ramakrishnan found a way to paint The first thing that strikes you are his eyes. The contorted limbs, bent body, the ubiquitous wheelchair all ...

The human brain has an extraordinary ability to adapt to major changes, both in the brain itself and in the rest of the body. New research in the journal Cell Reports shows that for individuals born ...

Guests for the preview showing of Richard Jackson’s “Ain’t Painting a Pain” were in for a bit of a surprise when they arrived at the Orange County Museum of Art recently. A giant statue of a dog with ...

Two artists who paint with their toes have unusual neural footprints in their brains. Individual toes each take over discrete territory, creating a well-organized “toe map,” researchers report ...