For decades, scientists have searched for a safe way to reach deep parts of the human brain without cutting into the skull.

In certain film adaptations, a dismembered head is tacked onto the malformed body. Then, with the help of a lightning storm, ...

Alicia Beveridge, a 41-year-old fitness instructor from Australia, opens up to PEOPLE about her life-changing procedure and ...

London - The doctors prepared to carry out the brain surgery, their medical tools laid out. Their patient, wide awake on the operating table, was given an instrument of her own: her clarinet, which ...

What if clinicians could place tiny electronic chips in the brain that electrically stimulate a precise target, through a simple injection in the arm? This may someday help treat deadly or ...

Archaeologists discover what may be the world's oldest surgery in a Viking-age skull, revealing ancient trepanation performed on a towering 6'5" man.