The findings showed that plaque volumes grew faster in participants who had COVID-19. In participants with COVID-19, the incidence of lesions (abnormal growths in blood vessels) developing into ...

These can include: MS is a progressive autoimmune disease that causes demyelination in the brain, spine, or optic nerve. The immune system damages myelin, forming lesions or “plaques”.

A new study investigated the brain circuits involved in psychosis—a condition characterized by delusions, hallucinations, ...

New research provides the first direct evidence that brain lesions causing secondary psychosis map to a common brain circuit ...

Andrew Pines, MD, MA, a resident in the Department of Psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a researcher in the ...

Despite similar prevalence at baseline, lesions in patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection had a higher incidence of becoming high-risk plaque (21.0 versus 15.8%) and higher incidence of PCAT ...

In this study, older people who regularly drank green tea had fewer of the brain lesions that are characteristic of dementia than those who did not drink it. People have long claimed that drinking ...

A study reveals that traumatic brain injury alters the small vessels in the brain, resulting in an accumulation of amyloid beta -- a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease. The findings suggest that vascular ...

Opens in a new tab or window Overall survival in metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer varied by location of brain lesions. Patients with central nervous system (CNS)-only disease had a higher ...

The virus that causes COVID-19 may expedite progression of coronary lesions to high-risk plaque. SARS-CoV-2 was linked to significantly elevated risk for cardiac death, MI and revascularization.