Scientists have zeroed in on a critical weak spot behind a rare but devastating brain autoimmune disorder often known as ...

The British Parliament Health Select Committee chair called for a review of warnings for dopamine agonists for restless leg syndrome and other disorders, as hundreds of patients told the BBC how the ...

2) acute signs of cerebral involvement such as altered consciousness or personality and/or seizures and/or focal neurological signs 5; 3) reactive IgM dengue antibody, NS1 antigen or positive dengue ...

Catatonia is an experience associated with a person taking a rigid or mute stance. Aspects of catatonia can also include unusual posturing, repetitive movements, repeating speech, and agitation. It is ...

South Carolina health officials are warning of "irreversible" neurological damage in children as measles-related hospitalizations climb in the state. Of the 876 confirmed cases in the state’s upstate ...

The ongoing measles outbreak in South Carolina is causing serious, even life-threatening, health issues for some unfortunate children. This week, the South Carolina Department of Public Health issued ...

1 MBBCh (Wits), MMed (Wits), FCPsych (SA), FCNeuropsych South Africa Definitive management for autoimmune encephalitis includes first-line immunotherapy (corticosteroids, intravenous immunoglobulins, ...

South Carolina children who have contracted cases of the measles virus in recent months have also been affected by a worrying and sometimes deadly complication, the state’s epidemiologist said ...

A straightforward case of measles is nasty—but the disease’s complications are even worse. One of those complications has been confirmed in the ongoing, record-breaking measles outbreak in South ...

Some children affected by measles in the ongoing South Carolina outbreak have developed a serious complication of the disease called encephalitis, or swelling of the brain, state epidemiologist Linda ...

In the brains of newborn mammals, the rapid, experience-dependent GluN2B-to-GluN2A subunit switch in synaptic NMDA receptors drives synaptic maturation and enables proper cognitive development.