For the first time, researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience and Amsterdam UMC have identified what happens ...

Stories of brain-eating amoebas and flesh-eating bacteria are frightening. Here's what swimmers in North Carolina should know ...

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Recent discoveries of how the brain works have shifted focus to brain networks, offering potential new hope for people ...

Eight essential nutrients make up the suite of B vitamins also known as the B complex. Research at Tufts and elsewhere has ...

Naegleria fowleri, the rare, but deadly, so-called brain-eating amoeba, can be found in Pennsylvania's waters.

Now, an ambitious Microsoft-funded project at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), is studying the neural activity ...

The model reveals that more connected brain regions are more prone to damage, while isolated areas remain resilient. This approach offers a powerful framework for understanding disease progression and ...

Vaccines to prevent infection − including the COVID vaccine − might be as important as anything you might do to maintain your brain health.

For the first two years of his life, little Hamdan Khaled Saleh Salmen lived in silence and stillness. Born prematurely at 34 ...

A Columbia family is mourning the loss of their young son, who died after contracting a rare brain-eating amoeba from ...