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Kirsten Robb was overtaking another vehicle when she ploughed head-on into the victims' car, leaving them with an array of injuries, including a fractured spine, a bleed on the brain and a broken shoulder

Ally Wallace and Jake Shaw have been told that both of their children have a rare brain disorder

Chris Greco, 37, was left devastated in 2009 after his close mate, Adam Cheetham, told him he had been re-diagnosed with the disease, that had spread to his brain and spine.

Derek Hall sped through the pelican crossing where other motorists had already stopped.

Humans are unrivalled in the area of cognition. After all, no other species has sent probes to other planets, produced lifesaving vaccines or created poetry. How information is processed in the human brain to make this possible is a question that has drawn endless fascination, yet no definitive answers.

Research shows that more than 850,000 people in the UK have dementia. The number is rising, and by 2025 it's estimated that over one million people in the UK will have the degenerative disease

Psilocybin is a hallucinogen that changes the brain’s response to a chemical called serotonin. These changes could help develop new treatments for depression and other conditions.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is the most common form of motor neuron disease. People with ALS progressively lose the ability to initiate and control muscle movements, including the ability to speak, swallow and breathe.

A marine rescue commander who is recovering from brain surgery says listening to his body saved his life.

The Health Secretary said the technology, which provides more precise treatment, would help thousands of cancer patients in Scotland.

Fonacab driver Patrick McLaughlin picked up the distraught woman and her husband from the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast after they had dropped their teenage son off to have emergency surgery on a brain tumour