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For parasitologists, the answer is simple. Neatly housed in each of the myriad segments of a giant T. solium tapeworm are ...

Not to be confused with Alzheimer's, which is a disease in the brain, dementia is a collection of symptoms. Alzheimer's ...

An Oxfordshire woman with a brain tumour was joined by more than 250 of her friends and family as they took part in a 5km ...

While extremely rare, encephalopathy (a condition affecting brain function) triggered by mutations in the UBA5 gene has devastating impacts, with affected individuals reaching few developmental ...

Over the past decade, intensive studies have shown that the brain's meningeal lymphatic system acts as the brain's "waste ...

Surgery to remove the brain tumor was successful, but Inovejas lost 13 years of her memory. Softball helped her find joy ...

The Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) has updated its guidelines on using emerging therapies to treat metastatic brain ...

Brain researchers have identified a bridge between the thalamus and the cortex as the key area that is modified during motor learning functions. They found that such learning does much more than ...

Medulloblastomas, brain tumors in children, are thought to develop between the first trimester of pregnancy and the end of the first year of life. Researchers have now analyzed the genetic changes of ...

Medulloblastoma is one of the most common malignant tumors of the central nervous system (CNS) in children and adolescents.