A decentralized nervous system is one factor that helps octopuses adapt to changes, such as injury or predation, as seen in the case of an Octopus vulgaris, or common octopus, that was observed with ...

A new study published in The Journal of Neuroscience offers insight into how small grooves in the brain’s surface — known as ...

A new model suggests that astrocytes might be used in computation, coordinating with neurons and connecting synapses in ...

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Using an algorithm they call the Krakencoder, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine are a step closer to unraveling how the ...

Trichy: The district consumer forum has ordered compensation in two cases of medical negligence during caesarean section ...

Both cases represent an experiment in allowing a fetus to gestate in a brain-dead woman’s body. Given the tremendous work ...

The sutures are the areas between the bones in the head that fuse ... They may also have clear fluid draining from their nose or ears due to a tear in part of the covering of the brain. These patients ...

If only one suture closes too soon, your baby's brain may still develop normally, but their head may be oddly shaped. If more than one suture closes too soon, your baby's brain may not grow at the ...

Surgical techniques have improved since the days of the Byzantine Empire, but in the 21st century, nerve sutures are still an incredibly tricky ... “Nerves carry signals — signals from the brain to ...

Throughout postnatal craniofacial development, sutures function as sites of bone growth, accommodating expansion of a growing brain. As growth frontiers, cranial sutures are actively responsible for ...