Neuroanatomy
latest news & developments
There’s gold at the end of the Brainbow
An ambitious project to map the human brain has vast medical potential – if it’s possible.
First step to reading your mind
Mind reading a reality but it would require your permission and the removal of the top of your skull.
Study ‘is breakthrough for MS therapy’
Scientists say they’ve shown that damage done to nerve cells in multiple sclerosis could be reversed by activating stem cells in the body.
Curing epilepsy
A pioneering new initiative at a British hospital is using MRI scans to assess whether children with epilepsy should have surgery.
Trial use of stem cells for stroke patients
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
The two different worlds in our brains
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.