Researchers measured acetylcholine production in participants' brains at the beginning and end of the 10-week trial.

For Sakura Tafoya, it started with a header. The Santa Fe girl and her family were playing soccer on a fall day in 2021. Sakura, then 4, tried out a move she’d seen other kids do: hitting the ball ...

Naegleria fowleri lives in warm, fresh water and can enter the brain through the nose, where it causes inflammation and tissue death. Fewer than 200 people have contracted the amoeba since 1962, but ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Missouri resident has been diagnosed with a laboratory-confirmed infection of Naegleria fowleri, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) announced Wednesday.

A Missouri resident died after being infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba at the Lake of the Ozarks, state health officials announced this week. The patient, identified only as an adult from ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, or DIPG, is a rare form of brain cancer that primarily affects children. Former University of Michigan football coach Lloyd Carr’s grandson, ...

Some day-to-day stress is inevitable for everyone —and the physicians in this article are no exception. But Claudia Muñoz, MD, MPH, a board-certified neurologist and neurohospitalist in Emeryville, ...

A person in Missouri has been hospitalized after contracting a brain-eating amoeba, possibly after water skiing in the Lake of the Ozarks, state health officials said Wednesday. The patient, who was ...

In neuroscience, ‘things’ are considered more rigid objects like a ball, while ‘stuff’ is more like a liquid. “When you’re looking at some fluid or gooey stuff, you engage with it in [a] different way ...

When Sergio and Andy rang the end-of-treatment bell together at Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) this past June, their care team filled the hall with cheers. For their mother Rosalba, it was a ...