Neuroscience

Could bizarre visual symptoms be a telltale sign of Alzheimer's?

A team of international researchers, led by UC San Francisco, has completed the first large-scale study of posterior cortical atrophy, a baffling constellation of visuospatial symptoms that present as the first symptoms of ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Clarifying the cause of Guillain-Barré syndrome

Patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) face a rare and heterogeneous disorder of the peripheral nervous system that is often triggered by preceding infections and causes severe muscle weakness. In Europe and the U.S., ...

Oncology & Cancer

Stromal cells may help predict prostate cancer metastasis

Non-cancerous cells called stromal cells, which are found in and around prostate tumors, may be useful in assessing these tumors' potential to spread, and may even be targets for future prostate cancer treatments, according ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Study finds complement system causes cell damage in long COVID

Most people infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus recover after the acute illness. However, a significant proportion of infected individuals develop long-lasting symptoms with a wide range of manifestations. Long COVID's causes ...

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