In fact, Vaneman, a retired professor of Shakespeare and medieval literature, had brain cancer: a glioblastoma or GBM, the most common type of brain tumor.
According to the singer's representative, Crow was diagnosed with meningioma, a common type of brain tumor.
Malignant glioma is the most common type of adult brain cancer.
Complications are common and rarely can include brain damage.
Experts say such seizures are common in patients who have suffered brain tumors.
The challenge for our workshop is remove from the students the common 'I am a left-brain person, I can't be creative!'
Hallman said she decided to have the surgery on her unborn son when she learned he was less likely to develop the common complication hydrocephalus, water on the brain.
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By pursuing new experiences and thinking differently about common problems, you are asking your brain to expend energy when its natural role is to conserve as much energy as possible.
Here, then, is a retrospective look at some of the scariest side effects to crop up over the past 12 months--from rare events like liver failure or brain-wasting diseases to more common ones such as heart attacks or strokes.
Osofsky-McGonigle had aphasia, a common outcome of stroke in which parts of the brain related to language, including reading, writing and talking, are damaged.
Several common antidepressants work by raising levels of serotonin in the brain.
For the first time, a drug appears to have prevented some of the brain damage and disability associated with the most common type of stroke.
Many researchers now believe most of these disorders share a common origin: clusters of deformed proteins that pile up in the brain over the years, slowly poisoning brain cells.
After analyzing data from 47 independent brain imaging studies, researchers found that the rule-breaking behavior common to people with antisocial, violent, and psychopathic tendencies may result partly from damage to the neural circuitry in the brain that underlies moral decision-making.
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The new brain cancer studies tested it as initial treatment for glioblastoma, the most common and deadly type of tumor.
Known as brain infarcts, they're involved in vascular dementia, the second most common form of dementia, after Alzheimer's disease.
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Another common problem for children with spina bifida is called hindbrain herniation in which part of the brain and brainstem slip into the spinal column.
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Nor is it clear that brain surgeons would make a better fist of legislation than ordinary people with guts and common sense.
In a recent shopping study conducted by the Open University in Milton Keynes, U.K. and the London Business School, scientists found that when shoppers are asked to make a choice among common and closely related items in a grocery-store-like setting, the areas of the brain involved in memory light up like a July 4th nighttime sky.
In a recent shopping study conducted by the Open University in Milton Keynes, U.K., and the London Business School, scientists found that when shoppers are asked to make a choice among common and closely related items in a grocery-store-like setting, the areas of the brain involved in memory light up like a nighttime sky filled with fireworks.
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