A Missouri resident has contracted a rare and often fatal brain infection caused by the Naegleria fowleri amoeba, commonly known as the "brain-eating amoeba." Infection occurs when water containing ...

Alzheimer’s disease slowly strips away memory and identity, affecting millions of people around the world. For decades, scientists have struggled to understand why it happens. Despite enormous efforts ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Aging, researchers investigated how past infections relate to brain volume changes and dementia risk. Prior diagnoses of severe infections are ...

In the aftermath of global health crises, new research has shed light on the troubling neurological effects of severe infections. Groundbreaking studies reveal structural damage within one of the body ...

The analysis used electronic medical record data to identify risk factors for neuroinvasive illness and death after West Nile ...

Credit: Getty Images Our work suggests that targeting the brain-muscle axis could offer new treatment strategies for muscle fatigue. Infectious or chronic diseases such as long COVID, Alzheimer’s ...

For millions suffering from long COVID, their persistent breathlessness, brain fog and fatigue remain a maddening mystery, ...

The man had been waterskiing on the Lake of the Ozarks in the days before contracting the infection, known as primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) A Missouri man who became infected with a ...

COVID-19 may be linked to a rise in bacterial brain infections in children, a new study suggests. When the pandemic hit, doctors at Helen DeVos Children's Hospital of Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids, ...

Sophie Bell, 17, had been suffering from cold-like symptoms and daily headaches for around a month when she was rushed to ...

A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign shows, for the first time, that severe flu infection in pregnant mice leads to a breakdown in placental and brain barriers, leading to the ...