An ambitious project to map the human brain has vast medical potential – if it’s possible.
Mind reading a reality but it would require your permission and the removal of the top of your skull.
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/ 10 December 2010
Scientists say they’ve shown that damage done to nerve cells in multiple sclerosis could be reversed by activating stem cells in the body.
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/ 10 December 2010
A pioneering new initiative at a British hospital
is using MRI scans to assess whether children with epilepsy should have surgery.
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/ 26 November 2010
For the first time, stem cells have been injected into the brain of a stroke victim in the hope that the brain will stimulate the growth of new neuron
It was only when a neuroanatomist had a stroke that she understood the gulf between the left and right parts of the brain, writes Emma Brock.