Lizzie McGuire star Robert Carradine died at age 71 after a decades-long battle with Bipolar Disorder. Carradine’s family ...

What happens to the human brain and body after death has remained a long-standing question. It’s intriguing to think about all the various functions of our body that ceases to operate while the heart ...

Brain activity has been detected up to an hour after cardiac arrest, challenging long-held beliefs about when death truly ...

Brain stem is that part of the brain that connects the spinal cord with the “main” brain and contains areas that control ...

To think, feel, talk and move, neurons send messages through electrical signals in the brain and spinal cord. This intricate communication network is built of billions of neurons connected by synapses ...

Recent advancements in organ procurement techniques to improve the quality of donated organs have given rise to normothermic regional perfusion (NRP), a procedure that restores blood flow to organs in ...

Death is one of life's final mysteries, but it might not be quite as final as you think, because even the clinically dead can still sense the world around them.