Yahoo

After the blaze, coping with 'fire brain'

Many people escaped the deadly Maui wildfires - some in harrowing fashion - but their ordeal may not be over. The harmful effects of wildfire exposure don't disappear once the flames are extinguished, ...
KSAT

Brain on fire: Surviving a rare and mysterious disease

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. (Ivanhoe Newswire) – Imagine being totally fine one day, then the next, you’re having hallucinations, seizures, memory loss, and even trouble talking. It’s called brain on fire ...
Medical Xpress

Human brain cancers fire electrical impulses: Researchers reveal unexpected hybrid cell spiking the signals

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital have uncovered a new cell type in the human brain. The scientists also ...
Salon

Like a “fire in the brain”: COVID can cause brain inflammation that mimics Parkinson’s symptoms

We typically think of SARS-CoV-2, the pathogen that causes COVID, as a respiratory virus. That makes sense, given that it is airborne and typically infects humans via the nose and lungs, and causes ...
NPR

Huntington's spreads like 'fire in the brain.' Scientists say they've found the spark

Diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's spread like a fire through the brain. Scientists think they may know how that fire starts. (Story aired on All Things Considered on June 19, 2023.) Diseases ...
The Washington Post

After the blaze, coping with ‘fire brain’

Many people escaped the deadly Maui wildfires — some in harrowing fashion — but their ordeal may not be over. The harmful effects of wildfire exposure don’t disappear once the flames are extinguished, ...
NPR

Huntington's spreads like 'fire in the brain.' Scientists say they've found the spark

Diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Huntington's are caused by toxic clumps of proteins that spread through the brain like a forest fire. Now scientists say they've figured out how the fire ...