Scientists have long tried to understand the human brain by comparing it to other primates. Researchers are still trying to ...

Rabies is one of the oldest communicable diseases known to humans and is almost always fatal, with very few cases of ...

His mother, Poornima Ramarao, now claims the final photo of her son proves he did not kill himself. ' [The medical examiner] ...

Three conditions that affect the heart are also linked to impaired brain function and increased dementia risk, according to a recent scientific statement from the American Heart Association. The ...

Peripheral nerves, i.e., outside the brain and spinal cord, are destroyed and cause burning, numbness, and weakness in hands and feet.” Difficulty with memory: Agnosia is one chronic ...

This is the part of the nervous system outside the brain and spinal cord. The onset of GBS can be quite sudden and unexpected. It needs immediate hospitalization. It can develop over a few days. Or it ...

Background Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis rarely causes visible lesions in conventional MRI, yet advanced imaging detects extensive white ...

"A white matter tract called the corticospinal tract provides the main wiring that goes from your brain down to your spinal cord to help power ... cables from the gray matter using morphometry ...

Respiratory difficulties and mortality following severe cervical spinal ... of brain volume, morphology, and surface area (126). The reorganization of gray matter is caused by cell atrophy or ...

and spinal cord. The test looks for: The presence of medical devices can also affect the quality of the MRI image. Your doctor will check beforehand to see if and what type of devices you may have ...

Correspondence to Elisa Colato, Russell Square House, 10-12 Russell Square, Queen Square MS Centre, Department of Neuroinflammation, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, Faculty of Brain Sciences ...

Articles were identified through Pubmed searches using these terms: DTI, diffusion, WM microstructural damage, WM integrity, structural network, brain connectivity AND ... with longitudinal changes in ...