Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a surgical procedure designed to take over where the dead or impaired nerves left off.

Study challenges the textbook idea that the brain region that processes body sensations reorganizes itself after limb amputation.

In cases of brain death, where the heart may still be beating, the patient has lost all vital brain functions, particularly in the brain stem.

Researchers took brain scans of amputees before surgery and five years after it, and the results shocked them.

Certain brain cells are responsible for coordinating smooth, controlled movements of the body. But when those cells are ...

Certain brain cells are responsible for coordinating smooth, controlled movements of the body. But when those cells are constantly ...

Researchers from the Broad Institute and Mass General Brigham have shown that a low-oxygen environment - similar to the thin air found at Mount Everest base camp - can protect the brain and ...