For decades, brain death has been an important but problematic factor for determining death. Is it time for a new approach?

When the heart stops, the brain does not shut down instantly. For up to seven minutes, it shows surges of activity linked to ...

A new study shows that overactivation of dopamine-producing neurons in the brain can trigger their degeneration, mirroring ...

Common shrews are one of only a handful of mammals known to flexibly shrink and regrow their brains. This rare seasonal cycle, known as Dehnel's phenomenon, has puzzled scientists for decades. How can ...

Explaining parts of this dilemma, a 2023 study published in the Frontier’s in Aging Neuroscience, shows what happens in our brain when we die or are at the brink of death.

Scientists are investigating new ways to bring patients back from a vegetative state—and raising uncomfortable questions ...

So when we engage in, for example, travel, and we're doing all kinds of things that are novel and complex, and the brain's reacting physiologically, your brain begins to look like a jungle.

The fourth and final season of Prime Video’s ‘Upload’ gives a farewell to Nathan Brown and the residents of Lakeview through ...

In a first, scientists in China transplanted a lung from a pig into a human so they could see how the host immune system ...

Although brain death has been the standard for organ donation — it’s easier to harvest more and healthier organs per donor because the rest of the body’s vital organs are kept alive by the ...

Two weeks after spending the Fourth of July on a popular South Carolina lake, 12-year-old Jaysen Carr died from a brain-eating amoeba that was living in the warm water.