by Dana G. Smith and Dani Blum, New York Times, Tuesday, May 14, 2024 | May 30, 2024 | Blog
Brain Parasites Can Stealthily Cause Great Damage Worms Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s disclosure that a doctor apparently found a dead worm in his brain has prompted questions about what brain parasites are, the damage they can cause, and how, exactly, they get there. Brain...
by Ellen Barry, New York Times, December 5, 2023 | Dec 26, 2023 | Blog
Scans offer insights into why PTSD memories are vivid and intrusive. At the root of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, is a memory that cannot be controlled. It may intrude on everyday, activity, thrusting a person into the middle of a horrifying event, or...
by Alisha Haridasani Gupta, New York Times, Nov 28, 2023 | Dec 26, 2023 | Blog
The life phase may be an important risk factor in developing dementia. Across the United States, roughly six million adults 65 and over have Alzheimer’s disease. Almost two thirds of them are women a discrepancy that researchers have long attributed to genetics and...