A four-year-old girl was left fighting for her life in a coma after suffering from a rare "one-in-a-million" brain condition - caused by the flu. Little Sienna Dunion was rushed to hospital after her ...

Our brain lives in a symbiotic relationship with the bugs in our body. Without the help of these bugs we humans would never have evolved to our current level of cognitive performance. So, what’s in it ...

Dean Buonomano, read by William Hughes. Blackstone Audio, , unabridged, eight CDs, 9 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 978-1-4551-1128-2 Neurobiology professor Buonomano examines the functioning—and rather frequent ...

Using a surprisingly simple technique, researchers in the University of Arizona Department of Neuroscience have succeeded in approximating how many brain cells make up the brains of several species of ...

Even the best computer system is prone to glitches. So is the human brain. But while we can easily fix and update those digital annoyances, the human brain and its complex neural web can’t be deleted ...