North Shore University Hospital has been using a blood test instead of radiation to help determine whether a patient has ...

Education on the prevalence and severity of TBIs may help patients better understand risk, and allow them to work on preventative strategies.

The human brain can do many amazing things, but self-repair is not one of its repertoire of abilities. Once neurons die—from trauma, stroke, or disease—they rarely grow back. Scientists have been ...

Illustration showing a transplanted nerve cell (gold) using its internal compass (code) to find its partner nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord (green). Some parts of our bodies bounce back from ...

About half a million people in Colorado are living with a brain injury and many of them don't know it.

A team of scientists—including Agnieszka Ciesielska (left), Barbara Klein (center), and Jeanne Paz (right)—showed that modified stem cells can improve brain activity, even when administered more than ...

Non–league side Kings Park Rangers have revealed that one of their players has been left ‘brain dead’ after sustaining a catastrophic brain stem injury. Saburi Adeniji picked up the injury earlier ...

Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States has a stroke. For survivors of the most common type of stroke, called an ischemic stroke, only about 5 percent fully recover. Most others suffer from ...