It’s impossible to overstate the importance of our brain. The organ, housed inside the skull and protected by a bony covering called the cranium, controls thought, memory, emotion, vision, and ...

A craniectomy is a type of brain surgery in which doctors remove a section of a person’s skull. Doctors do this surgery to ease pressure on the brain that happens because of swelling or bleeding ...

Surgeons had to remove a large chunk of his skull to relieve pressure on his brain and to remove the clot. “Getting a piece of my skull taken out was crazy to me,” Mr. Marr said.

For decades, scientists have tried to peer deep inside the human brain using beams of harmless near-infrared light. The technique, called functional near-infrared spectroscopy, or fNIRS, has become a ...

Brain, spine, and skull base tumors are tumors that develop inside the body's central nervous system. These include growths in the brain, spinal cord, and the tissues that line them. These tumors can ...

Preserved Brain Fossil Discovered inside 319M years-old Skull Artist's render of a Coccocephalus wildi, and the brain found inside when its fossil skull was discovered. Márcio L. Castro ...

And last week in the journal PLOS ONE, a team of historians announced evidence of a specific type of brain surgery, known as angular notched trephination, performed on a man who lived in Israel ...

This summer, doctors in St. Louis shaved away a small part of a person’s skull and replaced it with electrodes. The technology is intended to alleviate the patient’s severe depression by ...