A four-year-old girl was left fighting for her life in a coma after suffering from a rare "one-in-a-million" brain condition - caused by the flu. Little Sienna Dunion was rushed to hospital after her ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the vaccine skeptic, third-party presidential candidate and son of the slain attorney general, has had something eating at him: a literal brain worm. The revelation came in a ...

A species of organism closely related to a brain-eating amoeba has been found in a popular dam in Western Australia, sparking an urgent warning to swimmers. Naegleria fowleri was detected in ...

Using a surprisingly simple technique, researchers in the University of Arizona Department of Neuroscience have succeeded in approximating how many brain cells make up the brains of several species of ...

Our brain lives in a symbiotic relationship with the bugs in our body. Without the help of these bugs we humans would never have evolved to our current level of cognitive performance. So, what’s in it ...

The way teaching is typically done just doesn’t match how the brain actually learns. “Our approach to teaching is based on the assumption that the teacher has a pen and the student's brain is a sheet ...

Osaka, Japan – As the days grow shorter, many animals prepare for the approaching winter by suspending reproduction. Insects, for example, accumulate energy stores while halting ovarian development ...

Little Sienna Dunion was diagnosed with Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy. (Gary Dunion via SWNS) By Adam Dutton and Kate Cronin A four-year-old girl was left fighting for her life in a coma after ...