Our team of neurosurgeons at Baylor Medicine are experienced in treating all forms of benign and malignant tumors that occur within the adult brain and at the base of the skull. These kinds of tumors ...

The brain reaches 90% of adult size by 1 year of age; it is 95% of its ultimate adult size by 6 years of age and growth is complete by age 7. Skull anomalies may originate prenatally or may ...

In the early hours of February 10, another surgeon from Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) removed a third of Charliee's skull as her brain had become 'dangerously swollen'. She remained under ...

A HUNK of dark-coloured glass found inside the skull of an individual who died during the Mount Vesuvius eruption may actually be a fossilised brain, researchers have revealed. Glass rarely forms ...

A brain hemorrhage is a medical emergency that requires immediate treatment. Because the firm skull bone encloses the brain with very little space for blood or swelling to expand, a brain ...

In a study published today (July 24) in Nature, researchers show that there is a hot spot of meningeal lymphatic vessels at the base of the rodent skull that is specialized to drain CSF and allow ...

Elon Musk said his brain-chip startup implanted its device ... a human surgeon must remove a portion of the individual's skull. It reportedly takes about 25 minutes for the robot to insert the ...

The brain is the part of the central nervous system that is contained within the skull. It is responsible for executive and cognitive functions and regulates the functioning of the other parts of ...