In both Fullmetal Alchemist, the 2003 release, and the 2009 reboot, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood the main characters, Edward and Alphonse Elric, are in constant battle with creatures called ...

Even if there are only a few homunculi in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, they have remarkable diversity in how they look and function.

In a previous post, I drew attention to the parallel between a particular kind of psychotic delusion and the “homuncular thinking” that has recently been found to be beneficial to autistic children.

Within the brain’s frontal lobe lies the primary motor cortex, a sliver of neurons that coordinates movement. Beginning in the 1930s, scientists developed a map of this brain region called a ...