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Researchers believe the patient may have contracted the parasitic tapeworm by sharing a bathroom with someone who was ...

They originally believed their patient had brain cancer, only to later discover he actually had worms inside his head. The ...

When cysticerci enter a person’s central nervous system, it’s a disease called neurocysticercosis (NCC), which is the ...

Doctors suspected metastatic brain cancer in a 60-year-old man, but scans revealed pork tapeworm larvae causing ...

What has long been interpreted as permanent and irreversible vascular damage may not be exclusively so. In people with Down syndrome—one of the most robust populations for studying Alzheimer's disease ...

Lesions that cause secondary psychosis were most functionally similar to lesions that cause amnesia, though lesions that cause amnesia were more likely to be in the brain’s left hemisphere while those ...

Consuming at least eight alcoholic drinks per week was associated with a 133% higher risk for hyaline arteriosclerosis, a brain lesion associated with memory and thinking problems, than not drinking, ...

Drinking more than eight alcoholic drinks per week is linked to a higher risk of brain lesions called hyaline arteriolosclerosis, which are linked to memory and thinking problems. The corresponding ...

An artificial intelligence (AI) tool is able to identify focal cortical dysplasias (FCDs) — the microscopic lesions responsible for refractory epilepsy in children — with up to 94% accuracy. Dubbed ...

Why does multiple sclerosis progress quickly in some people, while others remain stable for years? Researchers from the ...