If you have had a stroke your chances of having another one are significantly reduced if you take a statin, according to a trial called the Stroke Prevention by Aggressive Reduction in Cholesterol Levels (SPARCL) study. The trial, the...

By applying electrical currents across the heads of people while they walk, researchers have improved our understanding of how our vestibular system helps us maintain upright posture; at the same time, the researchers found that the stimul...

By using simultaneous brain stimulation and activity recording to track the influence of one brain region on another, researchers have developed a method for boosting brain function that may have implications for treatments of brain di...

Using advanced brain sensor technology developed at the University of Oregon, researchers have confirmed often-debated findings from 1992 that showed infants as young as six months know when an arithmetic solution is wrong. Andrea Berger a...

Attempts to cool the brain to reduce injury from stroke and other head trauma may face a significant obstacle: current cooling devices can't penetrate very deeply into the brain. Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St...

Collagen Matrix, Inc.announced today that it has received FDA's 510(k) clearance of its CollagenNerve Wrap indicated for the management of peripheral nerve injuries inwhich there has been no substantial loss of nerve tissue and where gapcl...

If studies on pregnant mice also apply to humans, exposing a pregnant mother to ultrasound for over 30 minutes could adversely affect the baby's brain development, say scientists from Yale University, USA. They found that some nerve cells...

Renowned keynote speakers willdescribe the spectrum of materials-related challenges in orthopedics andspinal disorders, cardiovascular diseases, neurology and neurosurgery, andminimally invasive surgery at the upcoming Materials, Medicine...

The prolonged and frequent use of ultrasound on pregnant mice causes brain abnormalities in the developing mouse fetus, Yale School of Medicine researchers report August 7 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "Proper mig...

To understand how brain cells release compounds (or transmitters) used when the cells communicate with each other, Vladimir Parpura, associate professor of neuroscience, and Umar Mohideen, professor of physics, devised a technique, use...