The purpose of this study was to present 11 patients operated on owing to rare forms of peripheral arterial embolism at the Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases of the Serbian Clinical Center ...

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having to make a speech or being attacked. Here’s why our sleeping brain comes back to these unpleasant dreams again and again ...

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Addiction corrupts the ability to make choices.Addiction brings about changes in the brain, but those changes do not reflect a pathological process. The pathways to addiction can be difficult to ...

Brain samples contained 10 times more microplastics than other organs. The brain may contain higher -- and more significant -- amounts of microplastics than other organs in the body, according to ...

In the first weeks after birth, brain volume is typically about a third of what it will be in adulthood. By age 3, it will have expanded to about 80 percent of adult size. While most of the brain ...

"Brain fog" is an informal term used to describe a range of symptoms caused by a mild loss of cognition (including the ability to think, perceive, learn, or remember). People with brain fog describe ...

He also experienced a septic embolism, losing part of his brain's frontal lobe, and spent five months in the hospital after being told that a single day's delay in receiving treatment could have ...

Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected eight years prior, according to a new study. Overall ...

Although the precise mechanism of this embolism could not be determined, we assumed that a second septic focus existed on one of the major vessels (probably aorta) as a consequence of the ...

Additionally, he suffered a septic embolism, losing a portion of his brain's frontal lobe, and spent five months in hospital after being warned that a day's delay in treatment could have been fatal.