Fluid buildup can signal a worsening health condition or lead a patient to multiple trips to the hospital. For patients with hydrocephalus, an accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in the brain, ...

A five-year, $2.85 million grant to use novel technology to study babies with hydrocephalus has been awarded to a team of UTHealth Houston researchers by the National Institute of Neurological ...

Medical device tech company Rhaeos said in a press release that it has been awarded a $1.5 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke, part of the National Institutes ...

This flowchart illustrates the stepwise diagnostic and therapeutic approach for patients with refractory hydrocephalus (RH), focusing on infectious RH and low-pressure hydrocephalus (LPH). The ...

Few scientists doubt that backed-up clearance of detritus from the brain correlates with accumulation of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. But which comes first? Data presented at the 9th ...

A recent Yale study has identified new genes associated with congenital hydrocephalus, a neurological disease. The paper, which was published on Oct. 19, is based on the exome sequencing — the ...

Use of exosome analysis to reveal glioma-specific genetic changes in patient serum. Background: Treatment of leptomeningeal metastasis (LMD) remains challenging due to advanced systemic disease at ...