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Sitting in his wheelchair, hands at his side, 48-year-old Lee Marten looks at the computer screen in front of him and imagines moving the cursor across the screen. As quickly as he thinks it, the arrow shifts.  Marten, who is a sergeant with the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) currently on leave, uses …

New Ontario research shows women with traumatic brain injuries are far less likely than men to be admitted for trauma care, raising questions about why patients with similar, life-altering injuries may be receiving less-specialized treatment. Published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, the study analyzed a decade of data …

Before you make your morning smoothie, picture this: A woman with a cherry for a head tells her similarly cherry-headed husband that she’s pregnant. Cut to the hospital delivery room. The baby is born … and it’s a zucchini. “He looks just like your boss,” the man exclaims. This dramatic …

When Dave Evans underwent surgery to remove a pituitary gland tumour last October, his surgical team worked within an area roughly the size of a thumbnail.  In that tiny space near the base of Evans’s brain, neurosurgeon Dr. Neil Duggal and other clinicians at the London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) …

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Marjorie Rhéaume was scrolling through her TikTok feed when she came across a video of someone who had willingly assigned themselves reading as part of a personal curriculum. Intrigued by the idea, Rhéaume’s “for you” page was soon flooded with similar videos. Rhéaume, who lives in Sherbrooke, Que., creates video content for TikTok and …

The former high school football player who killed four people inside a Manhattan office tower that houses the headquarters of the NFL, and who blamed the league for hiding the dangers of brain injuries, was suffering from the degenerative brain disease CTE, New York’s medical examiner said on Friday. Shane …

Two Japanese boxers have died from brain injuries sustained in separate bouts on the same card at Tokyo’s Korakuen Hall. Shigetoshi Kotari, 28, collapsed shortly after completing a 12-round draw against Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation junior lightweight champion Yamato Hata on Aug. 2. He underwent emergency brain surgery for …

Over the last few months, academics and scientists in the U.S. have been scrambling to keep their footing on swiftly eroding ground, amid massive Donald Trump-ordered funding cuts and new restrictions.  But although a weakening of the American scientific community has far-reaching impacts on the global academic landscape, experts say …

Premier Susan Holt says her government would be willing to ban the herbicide glyphosate if a new investigation finds a link to the purported mystery brain illness that a Moncton neurologist says he is tracking. The province has launched a new investigation into the hundreds of cases, saying the symptoms …