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 ...

Before Rosie Jon was born, her mom had a vivid dream that her future daughter had a special gift. When Rosie was born without forearms, that dream set the stage for how Rosie would approach life with ...

At the Zenger Group printing plant in Buffalo, New York, Christmas came early … really early. It was August when holiday cards were rolling off the presses –a summer-time snowdrift of paper, each card ...

Jayden Tranby dabs the corner of his paintbrush into one of several acrylic paint swatches on the palette beside him. Seated on a stool at his family’s kitchen table, the brush clutched in the toes of ...

Using your feet like hands can cause organized 'hand-like' maps of the toes in the brain, never before documented in people, finds a new study of two professional foot painters. Using your feet like ...

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 ...