The novelist Julian Barnes doubts that we can ever really overcome our fixed beliefs. He should keep an open mind.

On paper, I had it all together. Behind my mind’s closed doors, I was completely broken apart.” An insightful new memoir on ...

Oliver Sacks was a maverick physician obsessed with solving his patients' neurological issues with bold, unconventional methods.

Also known as seizure disorder, epilepsy is a chronic condition that afflicts the brain through recurring seizures. Due to abnormal electrical activity in the brain, seizures temporarily affect the wa ...

Someone suffers a stroke every five minutes killing 38,000 people in a year - but there are ways to see it before it happens ...

Stuff Your Kindle Day is a great time to stock up your digital library. If you've had sci-fi books on the brain, you're in ...

Diagnosing patients when there aren’t effective treatments to give them can make their symptoms worse, argues neurologist ...

Glia are essential for brain functioning during development and in the adult brain. Here, we discuss the various roles of both microglia and astrocytes, and their interactions during brain development ...

Grey's Anatomy star Kate Walsh has opened up about the 'subtle' symptoms she experienced before being diagnosed with a brain tumour ... growth of any remaining abnormal cells.

Grey's Anatomy star Kate Walsh has opened up about the 'subtle' symptoms she experienced before being diagnosed with a brain tumour ... growth of any remaining abnormal cells.

Baden said: "That event would have been a cardiac arrest caused by an abnormal pulse rate," he said ... down and had some internal injury to the brain that doesn't show up on the outside or ...

Malignant tumors rarely spread beyond your brain or spinal cord. Tumors are graded by how normal or abnormal the cells look. The doctor will use this measurement to help plan your treatment.