A new USC-led study using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) reveals the neural mechanisms that contribute to ...

In the study, Carmichael and his team sought to determine how physical rehabilitation improved brain function after a stroke and whether they could generate a drug that could produce these same ...

"Our study shows how different cell types arise from stem cells in the embryo and how they are organized to create important structures in the brain," explains Emma Andersson, docent at the ...

Using mice models, Carmichael and team first identified an area in the brain where communication had been fractured following a stroke. This area was distant from the brain's central stroke site ...

Blood Test May Detect Stroke Type Before Hospital Arrival, Allowing Faster Treatment Jan. 30, 2025 — People with brain bleeds had nearly 7 times higher blood levels of a specific brain protein ...

The smiley toddler had diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, or DIPG, a cancer that occurs in the part of the brain stem that controls vital functions including breathing, blood pressure and heart rate.

But the most radical option has been tried by fewer than 100 people on Earth—those who have lived for months or years with implanted brain-computer interfaces, or BCIs. Implanted BCIs are ...

He was pronounced dead the next day. Carter’s mother told investigates that medical staff told her that her son experienced a “stroke in his brain stem.” Before his death, Carter had been ...

A new study described testing the device on a 47-year-old woman with quadriplegia who couldn’t speak for 18 years after a stroke. Doctors implanted it in her brain during surgery as part of a clinical ...

But soon after surgery to implant electrodes into specific areas of his brain in 2020 ... There’s a low risk of stroke, infection, hemorrhage and seizures during the placement of electrodes ...

Having a chip in your brain that can translate your thoughts into computer commands may sound like science fiction - but it is a reality for Noland Arbaugh. In January 2024 - eight years after he ...