Health Diseases Patient’s tingling feet turns out to be a rat-borne brain parasite Rat lungworm disease is carried through rodents, slugs, and snails. Andrew Paul Feb 28, 2025 12:39 PM EST ...

The Brain’s Big Principle None of these advances will allow scientists to create a bot-human construct like Murderbot anytime soon.

Eosinophilic meningitis, caused by the rat lungworm parasite, can trigger neurological symptoms like burning sensations, confusion, and headaches after ingesting contaminated food or water in tropical ...

Teen with Inoperable Brain Tumor Was Given 6 Months to Live. That Was 10 Years Ago A decade after her fatal prognosis, Grace Wethor is “miraculously” living with brain cancer — and has ...

A small new study shows reactions in the brain in people who were given psilocybin in a controlled setting. By Andrew Jacobs If you had to come up with a groovy visualization of the human brain on ...

We crafted our first rodent car from a plastic cereal container. After trial and error, my colleagues and I found that rats could learn to drive forward by grasping a small wire that acted like a gas ...

A New England woman was struck with mysterious symptoms after returning from a three-week vacation, and doctors discovered she had brain worms.

We have studied the effects of maternal caffeine intake on adenosine and GABA receptors, targets for caffeine, during development of the rat brain.

Researchers have measured the brain’s faint glow for the first time, hinting at a potential role of “biophotons” in cognition ...

Harvard researchers have mapped and catalogued more than 70,000 synaptic connections from about 2,000 rat neurons, using a silicon chip capable of recording small yet telltale synaptic signals ...

Researchers engineer brain-infecting parasite into living drug delivery system By Darren Incorvaia Jul 29, 2024 2:55pm animal research parasite Blood-brain barrier Rett syndrome ...