Prof Brennan uses a surgical drill to remove a flap of skull. The exposed brain is pink, flushed with blood, and gently pulsing to the beat of the heart. Standing next to me is Dr Claire Durrant, an ...

Neurosurgeons are typically portrayed in one of two ways in popular culture. One is as a brilliant, if arrogant, boffin. These doctors are intellectuals (it is brain surgery, after all) who have very ...

A team of researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been refining and combining several advanced technologies over the past six years to create a revolutionary platform to treat a ...

Simple pharmaceutical interventions could help older brains cope with memory impairment and recovery after surgery, new ...

Brain aneurysm surgery is a lifesaving medical procedure that attempts to repair a bulging, weakened area in the wall of a brain artery. A brain aneurysm is a balloon-like bulge in an artery in the ...