A 6-year-old girl with a rare neurological disease recently underwent a 10-hour surgery in California where half of her brain was disconnected in an effort to help cure her. Brianna Bodley underwent a ...

Researchers are banding together to conquer a rare orphan pediatric disease. They have recently proven what scientists had already suspected: the disease is autoimmune, which means that it attacks ...

Working with neurons in a mouse model, Doron Merkler and colleagues have found a way to block the defense mechanism neurons themselves trigger that eventually causes their damage. The previous ...

A 6-year-old Southern California girl battling a rare brain disease had one side of her brain shut down by surgeons as a potential cure that will still allow her to be the “same person” and lead a ...

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (KABC) -- A brave young girl is battling a rare brain disease, and the medicine she needs has caused her to rapidly gain weight, making her clothes unwearable. But she and her ...

In a new case study, researchers from North Carolina State University found Bartonella henselae, Babesia odocoilei and Babesia divergens-like MO-1 DNA in brain tissue samples from a young child with ...