Multiple sclerosis is a disease that can cause permanent damage to your body’s nerves and the communication mechanisms between your brain and ... withdraw your spinal fluid by inserting a ...

Results of two parallel studies show that 1 in 4 African children hospitalized with malaria and coma have an additional ...

After emergency brain surgery, 14-year-old Jacob Green remains hospitalized. His Eden Prairie family turns to GoFundMe for ...

Scientists are looking for answers about how these confounding trips, known as metastases, occur throughout the human body ...

Meningitis is an inflammation of the fluid and three membranes (meninges) surrounding your brain and spinal cord. The symptoms of viral and bacterial meningitis can be similar in the beginning.

It joins another new test, this one of spinal fluid, that can predict whether the brain changes associated with Alzheimer's are likely to affect cognitive function. "It's a strong indicator of memory ...

Hood River County in Oregon reported three cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare human brain disease very similar to ...

Results of two parallel studies show that one in four African children hospitalised with malaria and coma have an additional infection, and that ...

Kilfian native Clara Gardiner tells The Mayo News she would like to ‘tell the world’ about her late sister, Jemma, after beng ...

Tangle-like pathology is mainly observed in the brain stem and spinal cord, and to a lesser extent in the midbrain and cerebral cortex (Terwel et al., 2005). Age-dependent increase in total tau ...

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 ...