Texas high school pitcher Tyler Comeaux was just 18 when a brain bleed nearly killed him. After months of therapy, he hopes ...

The jugular veins are blood vessels that carry deoxygenated blood from the head and neck back to the heart; by using it as a ...

A new study shows that the brain's visual system adapts to your goals, reshaping perception based on what you're trying to do ...

Nature showcases diverse nervous systems beyond a single command center. Several animals, including octopuses, leeches, and ...

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He found a creative way to prove it.

When we talk about human anatomy, the brain and the mind are often used interchangeably ... (like heart and liver), and is situated within the skull, that houses billions of neurons that form ...

Researchers have developed a new ultra-thin nanomembrane sensor that can be delivered to the brain without the need for surgery. The sensor can monitor intracranial pressure, an important metric in ...

When you see a bag of carrots at the grocery store, does your mind go to potatoes and parsnips or buffalo wings and celery?

The electrode array, which can be implanted for 30 days to map brain activity, is a component of Precision Neuroscience’s ...

The number of measles cases in the U.S. has risen to 884, according to new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data ...

Doctors opened the back of his skull and saw part of the cerebellum ... Iron rod brain injuries have long been a part of understanding the human brain, dating back to Phineas Gage, who is credited ...

Most brain surgery requires doctors to remove part of the skull to access hard-to-reach ... They work in much the same way as human fingers, which are manipulated by tendons in the hand connected ...