For Steve Hartler, 2009 was not shaping up to be a very good year. At 48, he had just filed for bankruptcy leaving himself and more than 60 employees out of work, and with the economy in the tank, no prospects on the horizon. To make matters worse, Steve had just woken up with no feeling on the left side of his body....

In her new memoir "Composed," singer Rosanne Cash tells how she survived brain surgery for a Chiari Malformation. She warmly talks about her surgeon Dr. Guy McKhann and her physical therapist Dr. Evan Johnson...

Dr. Robert Solomon has been treating patients with brain aneurysms for a very long time and he has seen it all.  Some of the most challenging to treat, he says, are the amorphous or "giant" aneurysms of the basilar artery.  Researchers* at the Cerebrovascular Center recently pulled together...

According to Dr, Robert R. Goodman from the Epilepsy Center, there is a surgical cure for certain types of epilepsy that many patients and their neurologists don't know about.  This is particularly true, he says, in cases of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy . Epilepsy is a general term for a group of...

The Associated Press reports that rocker turned reality-TV star, Bret Michaels, was rushed to an undisclosed hospital with a severe headache last Thursday evening where he was diagnosed with a hemorrhage at the base of his brainstem. The Washington Post said Sunday that he was still in critical...

Many long-time sufferers of Parkinson's disease are finally getting the help they need with the implantation of  Deep Brain Stimulators.  During implantation, neurosurgeons aim for an exact location in the brain, but how close to this ideal spot are they really getting, and how much does it...