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NEW YORK (AP) -- People learned better when a key part of their brains got mild zaps of electricity, a finding that may someday help Alzheimer's patients keep more of their memories....

HOUSTON --The risk of re-bleeding after intracranial hemorrhage did not increase when patients received early prophylaxis for venous thromboembolism (VTE), a retrospective review showed.

Abnormalities in the brain may make some people more likely to become drug addicts, according to scientists.

Eating a diet rich in vitamins and fish may protect the brain from ageing while trans fats have the opposite effect, research suggests.

A blow to the head might injure a child’s brain differently than it would an adult’s, a new study shows.

Scientists have used brain scans to shed more light on how the brain deals with the memory of unpleasant or traumatic events during sleep.

Kids who spend hours a day playing video games may be hardwired to behave that way -- or their brains may have been altered as a result of all the gaming.

Some patients thought to be in vegetative states may later be assessed to have some level of awareness, and now researchers in Canada say they are able to detect consciousness in these patients cheaply and easily by measuring electrical activity in the brain.

One reason optimists retain a positive outlook on life despite all evidence to the contrary has been discovered, say researchers.

An unemployed Cincinnati man with no health insurance died after a tooth infection spread to his brain because he couldn't afford treatment, relatives said.