Zombies are everywhere, and they’re after your brain. Zombies are on TV, in books, and playing survival games on my college campus. With zombies everywhere and Halloween approaching, maybe you’ve been ...

People have often asked, “Why do zombies eat brains in movies and TV shows?” Ever since their inception and appearance in various television and film media, such as Return of the Living Dead, The ...

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In most pop-zombie lore, zombies have been infected with a contagion that turns them into mindless, soulless monsters on the hunt for human flesh. Even if a ...

Excerpted from Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep?: A Neuroscientific View of the Zombie Brain by Timothy Verstynen and Bradley Voytek. Out now from Princeton University Press. In the movie Dawn of the ...

Psychiatrist Steven Schlozman recently expanded his practice from humans to the inhuman. Poring over his library of classic zombie films, he came up with neurobiological explanations for the behavior ...

If you had to sum up the past 40 years of research on the mind, you could do worse than to call it the Rise of the Zombies. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free ...

It is now late Autumn. In late Autumn, with the days growing darker, with the nights getting colder…indeed, with Halloween just behind us, I have the privilege, perhaps even something approaching the ...