The Presenilin-1 group had similar parietal ... into the right anterior temporal lobe in comparison with the late-onset AD group, the DLB and the 4-repeat-tau groups (p<0.05 FWE). While it is only ...

Medulloblastomas, brain tumors in children, are thought to develop between the first trimester of pregnancy and the end of the first year of life. Researchers have now analyzed the genetic changes of ...

Medulloblastoma is one of the most common malignant tumors of the central nervous system (CNS) in children and adolescents.

Researchers detail their discoveries about why the brain tumor glioblastoma is so aggressive. Their findings center on ZIP4, a protein that transports zinc throughout the body and sets off a cascade ...

Medulloblastoma is one of the most common malignant tumors of the central nervous system (CNS) in children and adolescents.

The study is published in the journal Genes & Development. PA is mainly driven by two genetic changes: the loss of the Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) gene and a rearrangement of KIAA1549: BRAF ...

A Grammy-winning singer and his family have revealed the surprising early symptoms of his brain cancer. Michael Bolton, who was diagnosed in December 2023 with glioblastoma — the most aggressive ...

May is always a meaningful time for me—both as a neurosurgeon and as a scientist—because of the critical importance of Brain Tumor Awareness Month. This year, more than 90,000 people in the United ...

Her previous surgeries in the same building at the University of Maryland Medical Center had been hard enough: a pair of 14-hour procedures to rid Flores’s brain ... tumor. Through Flores’s ...

Gerald Voelbel, 57, a cognitive neuroscientist, awoke with double vision, a migraine, and coordination issues—symptoms that led to two unexpected diagnoses.

Corticosteroid therapy must be tapered because of its interactions with the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis. The hypothalamus secretes corticotropin releasing factor, which acts ...