The family of Conrad Dobler, once regarded as the dirtiest player in the NFL, said he had CTE based on a study of his brain ...

Nicole Herling was praying for brain disease. That's rarely happy news. But for her, it offered a potential answer to a haunting question: why, in less than a year, had her brother transformed from a ...

Because it can only be diagnosed with an autopsy, the neurodegenerative disease is difficult to pin in cases of professional ...

CJD is rare but fatal. The UK NHS lists possible symptoms including loss of intellect and memory, changes in personality, ...

In an international effort, researchers at Western, the University of Maryland School of Dentistry (UMSOD) and Neuroscience ...

Erich Grau helped pioneer American football in Germany. Now he probably suffers from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE ...

The brain interprets these sensory cues to understand what’s going on outside and inside the body. This allows a person to use their body to interact with their surrounding environment and ...

When a child develops a brain tumor, early diagnosis is essential. Alan Cohen, M.D., director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, shares the most common signs and symptoms ...

Chronic kidney disease: Late-stage kidney disease ... ammonia levels because it can help reduce ammonia made in the intestines and improve brain function. If hepatic encephalopathy improves while ...

For the study, two BCI participants were fitted with chronic brain implants in the sensory and motor regions of the brain that represent the arm and hand. Over the course of several years, the ...

By embedding threads containing electrodes within the human brain, the company’s device allows paralyzed patients to engage with digital devices through their thoughts. Arbaugh, for example ...

Nearly 10% of people live with chronic kidney disease—in other words ... of Medicine at Université de Montréal specializing in brain imaging and computational neuroscience.