Wearing a helmet reduced the probability of a severe brain injury (AIS 4-plus) to 9.3% for a 5.4 metres per second impact speed and 30.6% for a 6.3 metres per second impact speed.

In that case, doctors drilled a hole into the skull of the 22-year old patient — Jamie Crane-Mauzy — so they could take real-time measurements of oxygen and blood-pressure levels in her brain ...

This article was published more than 2 years ago. Some information may no longer be current. The cross-section of a human brain model. iStockPhoto / Getty Images ...

Encephalocele is a rare congenital disorder in which a baby's brain herniates from the skull in the womb and the bones do not properly form around it By Washington Post Published Jun 20, 2016 ...

One patient required brain surgery to remove a clot, and the other needed treatment for brain swelling. The staff had been operating for hours before they realized the mistake.