Worley was part of a team that showed how the loss of one of the two proteins used in the test disrupts synapses and leads to memory loss in Alzheimer's. His team also found that people could remain ...

Samples were collected during elective surgery under spinal anesthesia ... While blood-brain barrier dysfunction was not evident, the presence of these metals in cerebrospinal fluid raises ...

the fluid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord, from a total of 3,397 people in six independent cohorts from the US, Sweden, and Finland. Those findings were integrated with data collected ...

Brain scans like PET can pick up amyloid plaques ... are possible by analyzing spinal fluid, but that requires a painful and potentially dangerous spinal tap. Blood tests for the two proteins ...

The Challenge’ alum Jenna Compono revealed that her unborn baby has a CPC, a rare but normally harmless condition ...

Finally, metastasis results when tumor cells in the cerebrospinal fluid deposit tumor cells in the epidural space.This scenario most often occurs in leukemia. [2] Spinal cord compression ...

An engineer was left with traumatic brain and spinal injuries when a factory floor collapsed underneath him. Chris Simmons, of Eastwood, Notts, was left severely injured after he plunged around ...

Mar. 5, 2025 — Scientists used positron emission tomography (PET) with edaravone, a drug used to treat ALS, to detect oxidative stress, which leads to brain damage, ... New 4D Brain Map Reveals ...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a disorder affecting the motor neurons—nerve cells that control voluntary muscle movement. These cells are located in the spinal cord. Because the muscles cannot ...