A transient ischemic attack, or TIA, is often described as a mini-stroke. Unlike a stroke, however, the symptoms can ...

You might be familiar with a sensation called "brain zaps," or sensory disturbances that feel like electric shocks inside the brain. This symptom can occur after you skip or stop antidepressants ...

aUPMC Stroke Institute, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA bDepartments of Neurology, Cooper University Healthcare and Cooper ...

A person’s brain is not fully developed until their mid to late 20s, as the brain grows in physical size and with the emergence and strengthening of nerve pathways in the brain. Maturity, judgment, ...

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The resulting atlas and accompanying three-dimensional interactive website provide a framework to further understand the anatomical landscape of the nervous system and how the brain communicates ...

The "top of the basilar" syndrome is usually due to occlusion of thalamoperforating arteries by emboli that rise from the vertebrobasilar arterial system. In this case, however, the emboli stemmed ...