Brain death determination sits at the fraught intersection of critical-care medicine, ethics, and organ-donation logistics. Missteps risk either prolonging mechanical support with no prospect of ...

Commonly known as the brain worm, Parelaphostrongylus tenuis infects a large range of wild and domestic herbivores ...

News outlets have been reporting the story of Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old pregnant woman diagnosed as brain dead in February 2025 when she was nine weeks pregnant. According to reports, Smith had ...

A 71-year-old woman died from a brain-eating amoeba infection after cleaning her sinuses with unboiled tap water from an RV at a campground in Texas. The amoeba, Naegleria fowleri, is rare but often ...

Parkinson's disease is characterized by the death of dopamine-producing neurons in a part of the brain responsible for motor ...

It happened at a music festival in California in 2018. “I think I was probably 28,” says Daniel Toker, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Neurology at the University of California, Los Angeles ...

Headers may lead to alterations within the brain, suggests new research. Scientists found that the most active footballers ...