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.

Scientists say they’ve shown that damage done to nerve cells in multiple sclerosis could be reversed by activating stem cells in the body.

A pioneering new initiative at a British hospital is using MRI scans to assess whether children with epilepsy should have surgery.

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.