EEG and MRI. Diagnosis ... in the right precentral region of her brain. An open-brain biopsy confirmed T-cell-dominated encephalitis with activated microglial cells forming nodules and reactive ...

Rabies is one of the oldest communicable diseases known to humans and is almost always fatal, with very few cases of ...

Dengue virus is an RNA virus, and four different serological subtypes exist, type 2 and 3 usually cause encephalitis. Brain lesions on MRI show hyperintensity on T2-W and FLAIR imaging ...

To our knowledge this is the first described case of herpes simplex encephalitis associated with normal MRI brain imaging and non-focal neurological examination. This further expands the range of ...

Doctors around the US have anecdotally reported an uptick of children critically ill with the flu developing severe, life-threatening neurological complications, which can be marked by seizures, ...

A CDC report has revealed that nine of 68 of children who died of flu this year had brain damage, but it's unclear whether this influenza-associated encephalopathy is on the rise.

Encephalitis and meningitis are inflammatory conditions that affect different parts of the brain. Meningitis causes inflammation in the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord, called the ...

However, encephalitis is a rare disease. The word encephalitis means swelling (often inflammation) of the brain. Early signs can include the sudden onset of headache, fever and frequent seizures.

The two most important measles complications to know about are pneumonia, affecting the lungs, and brain swelling known as ...

Correlations between mitochondrial and brain-imaging metrics could enable future non-invasive explorations of mitochondrial bioenergetics in the brain in health and disease. The transformation of ...

Encephalitis is a rare but serious condition that causes the brain to swell. It can be life threatening and requires urgent hospital treatment. Anyone can be affected, but the very young and very ...