The worms that live in my brain make themselves known in plenty of ways: My bitten nails, pounding headaches and bad thoughts all go back to the nuisances in my frontal lobe slowly chipping away at my ...

Literal brain worms! But it does not actually involve any brain-munching, or even your standard-issue worm. The brain-invading culprit is instead a tape worm (a kind of helminth) that typically ...

Brain worms are more common than you think. Here’s what doctors who’ve treated them say. RFK Jr. said doctors had found a dead worm in his brain ...

According to that doctor, the dark spot on his brain scans was less likely a tumor than a "worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died," the conspiracist candidate said when ...

Doctors in the U.S. got a nasty surprise when they discovered that a man visiting a clinic for migraines had parasitic worms growing in his brain. The 52-year-old man was infected with the larvae ...

The worm was pulled from the woman's brain in 2022, after she had shown symptoms including stomach pain, cough, forgetfulness and depression. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ...

Jeet Heer May 9, 2024. Facebook; Twitter; Email; How big was it? Robert F. Kennedy Jr. not discussing the worm in his brain on Fox and Friends. (Roy Rochlin / Getty Images) ...

The human brain is comprised of two main types of cells, known as neurons and glia. The first are responsible for ...

Fred Hutch researchers have created a gene-expression map of glial cells of the tiny worm, C. elegans, adding the missing ...

Brain worms made national news earlier this year, after presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. disclosed that a parasitic worm he contracted years ago "ate a portion" of his brain, ...