Your brain is a highly specialized organ that contains as many as 86billion nerve cells. It can process information as fast as 350 miles per hour. But many conditions, including infections, injuries,stroke,seizures, and tumors, can affect the health of your brain and how it works. Here's ...
Saved My Life For high-grade (more advanced and aggressive) gliomas, seizures are more likely withsmallertumors. I was surprised to read this. It appears that seizures can bring some good news, since they are more common with the less dangerous tumors. Another surprising result reported in the...
Are damage or changes in brain tissue already present and potentially causing the seizures to occur? Additional factors that can impact observations are: the natural process of aging the presence of other health conditions the use of antiseizure medications In many cases, it can be very hard ...
Inflammation within brain tissuecan affect function. This inflammation may be due to infections that causemeningitisandencephalitis. Other infections may cause discrete changes within the brain tissue. Neurocysticercosis, for example, is the most common cause of epilepsyin the developing world; the paras...
Activation of cannabinoid receptor 2 attenuates leukocyte-endothelial cell interactions and blood-brain barrier dysfunction under inflammatory conditions. J Neurosci. 2012;32(12):4004–16. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.4628-11.2012. Article CAS PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Zhang HY, Gao...
Moreover, pathogenic activation of type 2 immunity in response to harmful environmental stimuli can contribute to the development of diseases/conditions that include asthma, allergic rhinitis, atopic dermatitis, and allergies to drugs and foods [26], while excessive inhibition of cytotoxic type 1 ...
conditions, the intracranial pressure is determined by the volume of three compartments: brain parenchyma, quantity of cerebrospinal fluid, and intravascular blood pool. Because of the rigidity of the cranium, increases in the size of one component of the intracranial contents must be accompanied by ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes 'Smooth brain' disorders may share a common cause—and a potential treatment Lissencephaly is a spectrum of rare, genetic disorders in which the brain fails to develop its hallmark folds. The disorders are often associated with seizures and intellectual disability and ...
In this review we summarize the current knowledge on the structural and functional alterations occurring in astrocytes from the human brain in pathological conditions such as epilepsy, primary tumours, Alzheimer’s disease, major depressive disorder and Down syndrome. Compelling evidence thus shows that ...
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).Share and Cite MDPI and ACS Style Matsui, J.K.; Perlow, H.K.; Baiyee, C.; Ritter, A.R.; Mishra, M...