NERVOUS SYSTEM HEALTH

Medical ethics can be thorny even with relatively benign topics. But physician-assisted suicide to achieve “death with dignity’ is especially fraught. It raises issues of personal beliefs, religion, human rights, end-of-life-care, informed consent, the law and euthanasia.

Could a simple neck ultrasound be the key to an early dementia diagnosis?

Doctors have used a self-learning computer to detect changes in brain scans that are too subtle for the human eye to see

Scientists have found a new clue that Parkinson's disease may get its start not in the brain but in the gut — maybe in the appendix.

Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor -- the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court -- announced Tuesday she has the "beginning stages of dementia, probably Alzheimer's." 

You’re feeling forgetful: Is it just a “senior moment,” or is it actually Alzheimer’s disease?

Selma Blair on Saturday said she was recently diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and opened up about how the disease has “disabled” her.

A Houston mother who went to bed with a suspected hangover and woke up paralyzed in the hospital is back in nursing school after undergoing major brain surgery to remove an aggressive tumor.

A newlywed bride suffered a stroke on Saturday while on her honeymoon in New York City, 9News.com reported.

A grandmother who "looked like a monster" after suffering a stroke has smiled for the first time in years thanks to pioneering surgery to move the nerves in her face.