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Elevated neurofilament light chain reflects neuronal injury and is one of the most sensitive blood markers we have for ongoing brain damage.

Neurosurgeon says a simple blood test can predict brain diseases years before symptoms; here’s everything you need to know

September 25, 2025 5:08 pm

In his post, the doctor highlighted the test as a potential game-changer.

Rethinking addiction as a chronic brain disease

September 08, 2024 10:38 am

Choosing drugs could then be understood not as a moral failing but as a form of decision-making, with its own bleak logic.

Climate change is linked to worsening brain diseases – new study

June 03, 2024 2:09 pm

Many of the components of the brain are, in fact, working close to the top of their temperature ranges, meaning that small increases in temperature or humidity may mean they stop working so well together.

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy diagnosed in woman athlete for the first time; know more about the brain disease

July 05, 2023 5:07 pm

Use of protective headgear such as helmets and mouth guards can reduce the risk of direct head trauma, said Dr (Prof.) Suryanarayana Sharma P M, senior consultant neurologist and stroke specialist, Apollo Hospitals, Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore

Smoking shrinks your brain: Study

February 11, 2015 4:53 pm

Smoking appears to accelerate the thinning of the brain's cortex, the outer layer of the brain.

Sleep disorder linked to Alzheimer's, Parkinson's

April 23, 2014 5:04 pm

In healthy brains, muscles are temporarily paralysed during sleep to prevent this from happening.

Exercise may cut epilepsy risk in men

September 05, 2013 3:47 pm

Epilepsy is a brain disease that causes repeated seizures over time.

Eating berries can protect men against Parkinsons disease : study

April 05, 2012 12:28 pm

Study said those who ate the fruits were found to be 40% less likely to develop the brain disease.

Gene therapy can cure brain disease: Scientists

November 06, 2009 2:36 pm

In what could raise hopes of thousands of families,scientists have managed to halt a rare brain disease that kills boys by the time of adolescence through an experimental gene therapy.