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(MedPage Today) -- Adolescents reporting a history of abuse -- even nonphysical forms such as emotional neglect -- had deficits in gray-matter brain volume in numerous regions compared with other teens, researchers said.

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(University of Southern California) After short-term exposure to vehicle pollution, mice showed significant brain damage -- including signs associated with memory loss and Alzheimer's disease.

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- Recovering from a gunshot wound to the head depends on the bullet's path, and while doctors Sunday are optimistic about Rep.

Gabrielle Giffords' odds, it can take weeks to months to tell the damage....

ORLANDO (MedPage Today) -- Cooling the brain of a person shortly after an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest may improve the chances of survival without brain damage, researchers reported here.

Some intriguing studies of a single patient with brain damage suggests that our sense of personal space is hardwired into our brains

Sheff s story is a first: a teenager s addiction from the parent s point of view a real-time chronicle of the shocking descent into substance abuse and the gradual emergence into hope. Before meth, Sheff s son Nic was a varsity athlete, honor student, and...

NEW YORK (AP) -- When he was diagnosed with kidney cancer last year, Dave deBronkart needed an easy way to keep his far-flung friends and family updated.

So did the president of the American Medical Association when he fell ill months ago. And so did the mother of a soldier wounded in Iraq who later suffered brain damage....