AP (Aug. 13, 2013) — Infections linked to a brain-eating amoeba called Naegleria fowleri are incredibly rare and almost always fatal. So it's remarkable that Kali Hardig is alive and responsive after being diagnosed last ... watch video
Newsy (May 2, 2016) — Jennifer McClain's daughter Kelsey died after becoming infected with a brain-eating amoeba in 2015.
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Reuters (July 16, 2013) — German and Canadian scientists have built a three dimensional map of the human brain to help in the development of new treatments for neurological disorders like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. ... watch video
Deutsche Welle (Aug. 4, 2013) — A healthy brain just keeps getting better with age. That is the surprising discovery of Ernst Poeppel, a brain researcher in Munich. Vocabulary, verbal memory and spacial and associative reasoning ... watch video
Reuters (Apr. 11, 2013) — Researchers at Stanford University in California have developed a process that renders an intact mouse brain transparent. By replacing the opaque fatty components in the brain with a transparent ... watch video
Reuters - Innovations Video Online (May 7, 2015) — A simplified computer model of a mouse brain is created by neurorobotics engineers to demonstrate how the body and brain interact with each other. They mapped 200,000 neurons in the virtual mouse ... watch video
Newsy (Nov. 5, 2013) — Researchers say the stereotype that teen girls are at risk for eating disorders shouldn't be the only group doctors and parents focus ... watch video
Howdini (Oct. 8, 2013) — Binge eating is one of a number of eating disorders that may demand professional help. Psychotherapist Joanna Poppink shares ways to help yourself fight the ... watch video
Sep. 7, 2016 — During the first three months after stroke, the risk for depression was found to be eight times higher than in a reference population of people without stroke, according to a new ... read more
Sep. 8, 2016 — People who receive a financial incentive to raise money for a charity they care about are actually less effective in soliciting donations, even when potential donors have no idea that incentives were ... read more
Sep. 8, 2016 — Intracellular defects that lead to cells' failure to decommission faulty 'power packs' known as mitochondria cause nerve cells to die, triggering the symptoms of ... read more
Sep. 8, 2016 — A researcher studying how the brain uses perception of the environment to guide action has a new understanding of the neural circuits responsible for transforming sensation into ... read more
Sep. 8, 2016 — People synchronize what they remember and what they forget after sharing memories with one another, according to new research. The findings, have an applied scope: policymakers could use them to bust ... read more
Sep. 8, 2016 — Researchers have identified mutations responsible for a disorder that causes the premature fusion of the suture along the top of a baby's skull. Their discovery will ... read more
Sep. 8, 2016 — A new study has estimated, for the first time, the numbers of people with Down syndrome in the US, from 1950 until 2010. The total number arrived at by the investigation, which also is the first to ... read more
Sep. 8, 2016 — Even as researchers gain new insights into the neurobiology of borderline personality disorder (BPD), there's a pressing need to improve diagnosis ... read more
Sep. 8, 2016 — A set of 30 inherited recessive genes that play a role in intellectual disability, a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects as many as 213 million people around the world, has been, for the first ... read more
Sep. 7, 2016 — People who visit emergency rooms for mental health care were transferred to another facility at six times the rate of people who visit ERs for ... read more
Jan. 25, 2016 — Antibodies in the blood of people who have survived a strain of the Ebola virus can kill various types of Ebola, scientists now report. The findings are significant because it helps researchers ... read more
July 23, 2014 — The drought that has the entire country in its grip is affecting more than the color of people's lawns. It may also be responsible for the proliferation of a heat-loving amoeba commonly found in ... read more
Dec. 26, 2013 — Scientists have obtained the first detailed molecular structure of a member of the Tet family of enzymes. The finding is important for the field of epigenetics because Tet enzymes chemically modify ... read more
Aug. 23, 2012 — When water containing the Naegleria fowleri amoeba, a single-celled organism, enters the nose, the organisms may migrate to the brain, causing primary amebic meningoencephalitis, a very rare -- but ... read more
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