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For musicians, playing a musical instrument appears to increase blood flow velocity in the middle cerebral artery (MCAv), a recent study has found.

While children with brain tumours already suffer from impaired neurocognitive functions, radiotherapy appears to worsen these impairments, a new study has found.

The symptom burden of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) appears to be heavier among women, especially those who have had previous episodes, a recent study has found.

A study conducted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Fudan University in Shanghai, China, and Zhengzhou University in Zhengzhou, China, has found that a molecular stratification system based on single-gene alterations aids fine prognostication of adult gliomas.

A pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) conducted by the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has demonstrated earlier improvement in global cognitive function in older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) who regularly partook in Tai Chi training vs conventional exercise.

Brain metastasis usually develops in patients with cardiac angiosarcoma (CA), and their risk of intracranial haemorrhage (IH) is high, results of a study have shown. This leads to an alarming rate of terminal haemorrhage (TH) despite normal platelet counts.

When it comes to treating children with cerebral palsy, neurodevelopmental therapy (NDT) appears to produce smaller improvements in motor function compared with activity-based and body structure and function interventions, according to a study. Furthermore, NDT is no better than control, and higher-dose is not more effective than lower-dose NDT.

Treatment with a nonhallucinogenic phytocannabinoid, cannabidivarin, is well tolerated in children with Rett syndrome (RTT), according to data from a phase 1 trial. Moreover, it improves seizure control in those whose disease is caused by methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MECP2) pathogenic variants.