neurology

Data from mouse models for mild coronavirus infections and human tissue samples offer further evidence that it doesn’t take a severe infection—or even infection of brain cells at all—to cause long-term neurological symptoms.

Epidemiological research suggests that a flu diagnosis might be one factor in the eventual onset of the neurodegenerative disease, but experts say it doesn’t prove a causal relationship.

She wrote the book on brain injuries.

The three-month moratorium comes after a former prion researcher was diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

The death rate was higher among those who experienced the seizures, according to a study conducted during the early days of the pandemic.

A physician and neurobiologist at the Rockefeller University who specialized in addiction research, Kreek was best known for her work on developing the treatment for heroin addiction.

Two out of three people who received noninvasive ultrasound appear to have gained some level of consciousness, according to preliminary trial results.

Autopsy studies have yet to find clear evidence of destructive viral invasion into patients’ brains, pushing researchers to consider alternative explanations of how SARS-CoV-2 causes neurological symptoms.

Health officials are searching for possible exposures to heavy metals, but no sources of contamination have been identified.

Comparing the brain scans of high-impact rugby players with those of athletes in noncontact sports, such as rowing and swimming, revealed tiny, yet significant, differences in the brain’s white matter.

These “coarse-grained” plaques resemble those that clog up the brain’s blood vessels in a different disease, pointing to links between the vascular system and the neurodegenerative disease.

When mice that had suffered a stroke were given blood from a healthy donor, they experienced less tissue and neurological damage.

The authors propose that the shots might keep the immune system primed to battle diseases that would otherwise contribute to cognitive decline.