Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder, characterized by progressive cognitive decline and ...

At age 66, Richard "Dick" Nash first suspected something might be wrong when he participated in a Dallas walk for juvenile ...

Introduction Burnout among healthcare professionals remains a critical public health issue linked to impaired cognition, emotional exhaustion and diminished clinical performance. Structured breathing ...

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of medicine's most powerful diagnostic tools. But certain tissues deep inside the body—including brain regions and delicate structures of the eye and orbit that ...

A University of Houston engineering professor is warning that implanted cuff electrodes – widely used in therapy for epilepsy, depression and inflammatory disorders – could trigger unintended nerve ...

A key axiom of fiscally responsible budgeting is that it usually costs far less to ward off devastation from a crisis or disaster than to clean up devastation after it has occurred. And once one takes ...

The brain relies on real-time delivery of oxygen and nutrients through its microvasculature, which threads through neural ...

Introduction Onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, is a parasitic disease caused by Onchocerca volvulus affecting millions predominantly in sub-Saharan Africa. Robust epidemiological ...

When patients arrive for a cardiac MRI at Health First’s Holmes Regional Medical Center, they may not realize that while they lie still in the scanner.