Analysis of human brain tissue revealed differences in how immune cells behave in brains with Alzheimer's disease compared to healthy brains, indicating a potential new treatment target. University of ...

Long before memory problems appear, your brain may already be losing neurons. That is the unsettling message from new work by ...

An 8-year-old traumatic brain injury may or may not have led to man's death. June 26, 2009— -- Eight years after he was struck in the back of the head with a baseball bat, a 26-year-old Colorado ...

Since his February 2023 arrest, Tony Garcia was attacked four times by other inmates. The final attack left him comatose, and he died seven months later. Garcia was awaiting trial for the the 1981 ...

We’ve always thought of death, especially brain death, as a hard line. Once it happens, that’s it, right? But some new, really interesting research is making scientists rethink that. They’ve been ...

A prominent recent case involved a 23-year-old Jamaican woman who admitted herself to Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx, New York, for elective surgery on July 30, 2024. In February, Amber Ebanks, a ...

Children who died soon after moderate or severe TBI had more bilateral brain swelling than adults. At autopsy, pediatric TBI patients had predominantly microvascular blood-brain barrier disruption. In ...

While that may still be true, there's a controversy simmering today about one of the ways doctors declare people to be dead. The debate is focused on the Uniform Determination of Death Act, a law that ...

Terminal lucidity refers to a sudden return of mental clarity before death. Neurologists explain why the brain may show brief ...

In “Dividing the Church on Brain Death,” which appeared in our June issue, Dr. Jason T. Eberl and others argued that current neurological criteria for determining brain death is consistent with ...

A study reveals our brain development changes at ages 9, 32, 66 and 83.