ABSTRACT: Background: Left ventricular size is a factor independently associated with increased mortality in mitral surgery, particularly, in the setting of ischemic mitral regurgitation (IMR). In ...

When a child develops a brain tumor, early diagnosis is essential. Alan Cohen, M.D., director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, shares the most common signs and symptoms ...

The brain interprets these sensory cues to understand what’s going on outside and inside the body. This allows a person to use their body to interact with their surrounding environment and ...

A man with paralysis who had electrodes implanted in his brain can pilot a virtual drone through an obstacle course simply by imagining moving his fingers. His brain signals are interpreted by an ...

and the diastolic pressure (the pressure during ventricular relaxation) is 80 mmHg. Read about measuring blood pressure. Also, when cardiologists talk about heart failure, they often specify whether ...

Parasitic infections can invade practically any part of the body. Brain parasites, those that infect the central nervous system which includes the brain, are potentially the most damaging and the most ...

They removed a slaughterhouse pig’s brain from its head and deprived it of oxygen at room temperature for four hours. Then, they hooked it up to their resuscitation machine and revived it—to ...

By embedding threads containing electrodes within the human brain, the company’s device allows paralyzed patients to engage with digital devices through their thoughts. Arbaugh, for example ...

from their mothers’ breathing — have enlarged white-matter tracts and brain ventricles 15. Mice exposed during development went on to exhibit greater impulsivity and short-term memory deficits.

Your brain has a lot of work to do, constantly balancing tasks while conserving energy. If you understand how the human brain decides what to pay attention to—and what to ignore—your public ...

Sergey Leontyev; Franziska Schlegel; Cathleen Spath; Ronny Schmiedel; Martin Nichtitz; Andreas Boldt; Rudolf Rübsamen; Aida Salameh; Martin Kostelka; Friedrich ...