Several weeks after NBC News reached out to Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield about the denial, the insurer changed its policy to ...

The human brain is remarkably complex, with trillions of connections that control how you move, think and feel. Yet it’s still vulnerable to debilitating conditions such as paralysis, stroke, epilepsy ...

A new type of brain implant may have implications for both brain research and future treatments of neurological diseases such as epilepsy. Researchers from DTU, the University of Copenhagen, ...

When Hunter Bambino was 9 years old, his parents started noticing something strange in his behavior. "I would be trying to field the baseball and I would freeze. That led to a medical consultation in ...

(Alain Jocard/AFP/Getty Images) Every year, more than 2 million people in the United States are diagnosed with ...

ATLANTA -- Are neurostimulators implanted within the brain a better approach in epilepsy than less-invasive vagus nerve stimulation (VNS)? That depends, a researcher said. Real-world data from two ...

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Earlier this week, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a human trial for a blueberry-sized brain ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — The brain may inadvertently "learn" to have seizures by treating them like important memories to be stored, according to new research from Mayo Clinic. The study, published in the ...

Illustration of the mAxialtrode, showing how it combines light, electrical signals, and medication in a single needle-thin tube that can be used to control and measure brain activity in different ...