A groundbreaking immunotherapy is showing unprecedented success against one of the deadliest childhood brain cancers — ...

A global outpouring of love and support from Swifties, the moniker for superfans of singer-songwriter and Berks County-native ...

Pediatric low-grade gliomas (pLGGs) are a group of tumors that affect children, teenagers, and young adults. They are the most common tumors of the brain and spinal cord in young people.

Once given a diagnosis of a brain metastasis or malignant glioma, patients were sent home to die. Cushing and Bailey described glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) in 1926: "It is from this group ...

Although no single food can improve mental sharpness, focus, and memory, some research shows that a nutrient-rich diet with plenty of omega-3 fats, antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals is important ...

A brainstem auditory evoked response (BAER) test measures how your brain processes the sounds you hear. The BAER test records your brainwaves in response to clicks or other audio tones that are ...

The nervous system is the body’s direct communication system. It’s made up of the body’s many nerve cells. These cells work together in a network that sends and receives signals from one ...

Given the brain stem’s vital role, we added a 0.3-0.5 cm buffer around ... Dose-volume histograms (DVHs) comparison of PTV54 in one glioma case for NHS VMAT plans and HS VMAT plans. The dosimetric ...

Now, scientists at Gladstone Institutes and the regenerative medicine company SanBio have shown that a cell therapy derived from stem cells can restore normal patterns of brain activity after a ...

About five years ago, Yale School of Medicine neuroscientist Zvonimir Vrselja, Ph.D., and his colleagues shocked the medical community with a groundbreaking experiment. They removed a ...

Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States has a stroke. For survivors of the most common type of stroke, called an ischemic stroke, only about 5 percent fully recover. Most others suffer from ...