Functional magnetic resonance imaging is the most common type of brain imaging, lighting up parts of the brain while patients think or perform activities.
Malignant pediatric brain and spinal cord tumors, including low-grade gliomas and medulloblastomas, are the second most common childhood cancer.
Some children are born with or develop irregularities of the skull and/or spine (called craniosynostosis). Some benefit from surgical correction procedures.
Suicide, whether spontaneous or planned, is a tragic act that has many long and far-reaching impacts.
Chronic pain is discomfort that persists for three months or longer. It can originate from tissue or joint damage, or a wide variety of other causes.
Spinal deformities affecting curvature or rotation (such as scoliosis, kyphosis and lordosis) can be caused by a birth defect, age or trauma.
One in 26 Americans has epilepsy, a neurological condition that interrupts normal electrical activity in the brain. Many effective treatments are available.
Giving birth by caesarean section (C-section) is safer than ever. Today's anesthesiology and pain management treatments ease pain for mothers.
Tobacco dependence treatment and research are priorities at Yale Medicine; we offer new therapies and clinical trials to help people quit smoking.
A rare, fast-growing type of cancer that begins in the brain and/or spinal cord.