Every day, hundreds of thousands of people undergo general anesthesia, trusting they'll drift into unconsciousness and wake ...

Parkinson's disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that affects more than one million people in the United States, with approximately 90,000 new cases diagnosed each year. Although ...

When someone has a stroke—a leading worldwide cause of death and disability—time is of the essence. Almost nine out of 10 cases are ischemic strokes, caused by restricted blood flow in the brain, and ...

Newswise — Doctors at the University of Chicago Medicine have performed the world's first bilateral stem cell transplant on a patient with drug-resistant bilateral mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) ...

A brain-stem implant was implanted in a child for the first time in Belarus, according to pristalica.by. Thanks to the ...

Just a few weeks after conception, stem cells are already orchestrating the future structure of the human brain. A new Yale-led study shows that, early in development, molecular "traffic cops" known ...