About 60% of people with brain cancer get seizures, which are sudden bursts of abnormal electrical activity in the brain. Tumors may trigger them by changing brain cells or chemicals in a way that makes nerve cells fire too often. During a seizure, some people shake. Others stare off into ...
Neuroblastomais a rare childhoodcancerof what’s called the "sympathetic nervous system" — the network of nerves that carries messages from yourbrainto the rest of your body. More than 90% of neuroblastoma cases occur in children under age 5. (Photo Credit: E+/Getty Images) ...
Over a quarter of all cancers in children are brain tumors. These tumors often start low in the brain, unlike adult brain tumors, which typically begin higher. Spinal cord or brain tumors are the second most common forms of cancer, but several types of brain tumors have vastly different outl...
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There is no connection between cellphone use and brain cancer, suggests a review into the potential risks of cellphone radiation commissioned by the World Health Organization and published this week. This includes people who spend all day on their smartphones, according to a report in The Washingto...
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Certain types ofcancer Anxiety Chronic itching can also be associated withstress,anxiety, and other types of mood disorders. Itching from other causes may even cause stress andanxiety, which can make itching even worse. The sensation is processed in the central nervous system, which consists of ...
‘I need to tell you this.’ She realized how her prayers were helping her son, her husband, her other children. [The woman said] the darkness that had come over her family lifted. She found herself back in the same church. She had peace. She said she knew everything would go away...
chimeric antibody receptor (CAR) T cell therapy, a treatment for blood cancer. When CAR T cell therapy is given, it causes immune cells to release molecules called cytokines, which help the body to kill the cancer. But cytokines can seep into the area around the brain and cause inflammation...
indicates that GPT-4 has attained a form of general intelligence. In other words, it has built up an internal model of how the world works, just as a human brain might, and it uses that model to reason through the questions put to it. One of the researchers told “This American Life...