From Brain Development to Brain Cancer

A Six-step Approach to Gain Higher Quality Results From ‎Organotypic Hippocampal Brain Slices in a Traumatic Brain ‎Injury Model

Background: Organotypic Hippocampal Brain Slices (OHBS) provide a better alternative to in vivo models to scrutinize Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). We followed a well-established TBI protocol but noticed that several factors might influence the results in such a set-up. Here, we describe a structured approach to generate more comparable results and discuss why specific eligibility criteria shoul...

Syntactic Development of Right-Brain and Left-Brain Dominant Iranian EFL Learners: Processability Theory in Perspective

Processability Theory, a component of the cognitive approach to second language acquisition tries to enhance understanding of how the interlanguage knowledge systems can be restructured by second language learners (Pienemann, 1998, 2015). The present study intended to run a similar investigation into the syntactic development of Right-Brain and Left-Brain Dominant Iranian EFL learners based on ...

Calcified Brain Metastases from Ovarian Cancer* Brain metastases from ovarian cancer

A 65-yearold woman with no known malignancy had lower extremity swelling, fever, and weakness of the left extremity. She gave a history of multiple trips to Mexico. Plain and enhanced head CT scans showed multiple calcified enhancing lesions located throughout the brain parenchyma (Fig. 1). The presumptive diagnosis was infectious disease, such as tuberculosis, fungal infection, or cysticercosi...

Meta-analysis of Incidence of Brain Cancer Among Aircrew

Introduction: Previous studies on Brain and other Nervous System Cancers (BNSC) and aircrew have shown inconsistent results, possibly due to their relatively small sample sizes; therefore, the current study aimed to increase the precision of risk estimates.Methods: Systematic searches of PubMed and Embase for pertinent studies up to August 2016 were perfo...

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