Dormant Fungus Hid Inside a Brain Surgery Wound for Two Years Before Striking
A rare case report documents Candida parapsilosis lying dormant in a patient's brain for two years after burr-hole drainage before ...
Tag: cerebrospinal fluid
Cerebrospinal fluid signals breach the ventricular border in multiple sclerosis
A new Nature Neuroscience study shows that reactive ependymal cells with disrupted cell adhesion form a failing ventricular border in ...
The Hidden Neck-Brain Pathway That May Explain Why EMDR’s Rhythmic Tapping Works
A new hypothesis paper proposes that EMDR's alternating taps and tones converge on a dense proprioceptive junction at the top ...
Drain-related brain infections in ICU patients reveal alarming antibiotic resistance patterns
A 13-year Turkish study of intensive care patients with external ventricular drains found that nearly two-thirds of drain-associated brain infections ...
Rare Viral Foe: Coxsackievirus A24 Antibody Reactivity Found in Brain Lymphoma
A new study reports the first evidence that a B-cell receptor from primary central nervous system lymphoma can react against ...
Insulin Reshapes the Brain’s Ciliated Gatekeepers, Study Finds
New research shows that prolonged insulin exposure remodels the multiciliated epithelial cells of the choroid plexus by expanding the multiciliated ...
Brain Washing Disrupted in Migraine: MRI Reveals Glymphatic System Clues
A multimodal MRI study of 123 people finds that migraine patients show reduced perivascular diffusion markers and, in chronic cases, ...
Gene Therapy Shows Proof of Concept for Treating Hydrocephalus at Its Source
A University of Cincinnati and UC Davis team showed that an AAV gene therapy targeting cerebrospinal fluid-producing cells reduced hydrocephalus-related ...
Simple Spinal Fluid Protein Test Could Curb Unnecessary Meningitis PCR Panels
A Colombian study of 478 patients found that routine cerebrospinal fluid white cell counts and protein levels could predict which ...
A Fat in Olive Oil Linked to Slower Alzheimer’s Progression in New Study
New research finds that higher blood levels of oleic acid, a monounsaturated fatty acid abundant in olive oil, are associated ...
Syphilis Bacteria Found in Spinal Fluid Across All Disease Stages
A new study finds Treponema pallidum DNA in the cerebrospinal fluid of HIV-negative patients at every stage of syphilis, including ...
Your Heartbeat Times the Spinal Cord: Study Reveals Rhythmic Gate of Nerve Excitability
Using real-time, heart-rate-adapted trans-spinal magnetic stimulation in healthy volunteers, researchers found that spinal cord excitability peaks during mid-diastole, revealing a ...
Brain Scans Reveal When Alzheimer’s Damage First Appears in Younger Patients
A study of nearly 300 patients under 65 shows that the cortical thinning signature of early-onset Alzheimer's disease becomes detectable ...
Brain Fluid Protein Hemopexin Sparks Scientific Debate Over Sepsis Detection After Stroke
A formal response in Neurocritical Care defends cerebrospinal fluid hemopexin as a candidate biomarker for sepsis after intracerebral hemorrhage amid ...
A Heme-Scavenging Protein in Brain Fluid May Flag Sepsis After Stroke Bleeds
A translational proteomics study identifies cerebrospinal fluid hemopexin as a candidate biomarker for secondary sepsis after intracerebral hemorrhage, while a ...
A Seven-Year Walk Toward Diagnosis: Endoscopic Surgery Rescues Boy From Giant Brain Cyst
A Syrian boy's seven-year gait disturbance was finally traced to a giant suprasellar arachnoid cyst and successfully treated with shunt-sparing ...
When a ‘Clean’ Spinal Tap Deceives: Adenovirus Strikes Toddlers’ Brains and Bodies
A Vietnamese case series documents four previously healthy toddlers with severe multisystem adenovirus illness, positive cerebrospinal fluid PCR, and near-normal ...
Silent Brain Attack: Common Autoimmune Dementia Mimic Caught in Largest Study Yet
A large Japanese cohort study finds that 41% of patients with autoimmune GFAP astrocytopathy develop cognitive impairment, with older age ...
Epigenetic Clocks Stay Ticking in Brain Fluid After Bleeding Stroke
A longitudinal study of 273 stroke patients shows that DNA methylation age measured in cerebrospinal fluid remains stable after aneurysmal ...
A Methylation Signature in Brain Fluid Predicts Who Survives a Deadly Stroke
Researchers found that DNA methylation patterns in the STEAP3 iron-processing gene, measured in cerebrospinal fluid after a brain aneurysm rupture, ...
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