A fusiform aneurysm causes the artery to bulge or balloon on all sides. This type is less common than a saccular aneurysm, which causes a bulge on one side of the artery. An aneurysm is a weakness in ...

The cumbersome leg braces the film's title character wore as a child remain one of the most recognizable depictions of orthotics. It's an exaggerated image—most orthotics aren't creaky metal anymore, ...

Have you ever had to say to someone "I'm so bad with names but I remember faces much better."? Well, it turns out the brain has a special region just for recognizing faces. A much-cited study from ...

A young doctor presented with positional vertigo, probably of peripheral origin. However, his MRI and MRA showed fusiform aneurysms in the intracavernous areas of both internal carotid arteries. His ...

A Johns Hopkins undergraduate and a recent graduate who have worked together on a software-driven orthotics startup have been named to the annual Forbes "30 Under 30" list. Param Shah, a 21-year-old ...

Scientists have found the brain region which is used when the blind recognise basic faces, known as the fusiform face area. While it is known that blind people can compensate for their loss of vision ...

Areas of the brain that help a person differentiate between what is real and what is imaginary have been uncovered in a new study led by UCL researchers. The research, published in Neuron, found that ...

Thrombolytic drugs are the main treatment for stroke, but they have often not been recommended for people who have an aneurysm in their brains that has not ruptured. A new study (“Risk of Aneurysm ...

The fusiform bacilli isolated by us fall in two groups, one group fermenting saccharose, the other not. There is no relation between these groups and the source of the culture. The fusiform bacillus ...