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Mumbai has its own version of brain masala curry. [1] Similar delicacies from around the world include the Mexican tacos de sesos. [2] The Anyang tribe of Cameroon practiced a tradition in which a new tribal chief would consume the brain of a hunted gorilla, while another senior member of the tribe would eat the heart. [3]
In Italy, cervella fritte is a popular dish made of bite-sized batter-fried morsels of beef brain. Outbreaks of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, commonly known as mad-cow disease) led to legislation to reduce risks of contracting the human variant of the illness by consumption of beef brains and spines. [2] [3]
Brain tissue of a cow with BSE showing the typical microscopic "holes" in the grey matter. Diagnosis of BSE continues to be a practical problem. It has an incubation period of months to years, during which no signs are noticed, though the pathway of converting the normal brain prion protein (PrP) into the toxic, disease-related PrP Sc form has ...
The skull bone behind Hermansen’s right eye was gone. In its place was a hole, allowing her brain to press against the eye, which explained the pulsating, said Dr. Netanel Ben-Shalom, a ...
Neurosurgeon Dr. Paul Saphier, M.D., shared some ingredients to a healthy breakfast for heart and brain health, including yogurt, fruit and seeds, in a video posted to X.
The study follows other research suggesting that an optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) scan could potentially help doctors detect signs of Alzheimer’s disease in the small veins ...
[4] [9] Exposure to brain or spinal tissue from an infected person may also result in spread. [4] There is no evidence that sporadic CJD can spread among people via normal contact or blood transfusions, [4] although this is possible in variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. [10] [11] Diagnosis involves ruling out other potential causes. [4]
Using an algorithm developed by Duke researchers, scientists were able to correctly identify retinal scans of people with mild cognitive impairment about 79% of the time.