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People with pre-existing medical conditions, such as obesity, and vascular problems such as diabetes, high blood pressure or high cholesterol, may experience a delay in being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), or experience an increase in severity of the disease at diagnosis, according to a study published in the October 29, 2008, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

Brain-imaging studies reveal that voting decisions are more associated with the brain's response to negative aspects of a politician's appearance than to positive ones, according to research published online in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (MedPage Today) -- patients with multiple sclerosis and significant comorbidities may have lengthy delays in diagnosis and treatment that can lead to more severe disability, investigators here found.

A vaccine developed by University of Melbourne researchers that could eradicate a fatal form of brain disease will be delivered to Peru next week, and could soon be commercially available thanks to multi-million dollar funding. The parasite Taenia solium causes 50 million tapeworm infections and 50,000 deaths from brain disease in the developing world each year.

INDIANAPOLIS (MedPage Today) -- patients with neurofibromatosis, the incurable neurocutaneous syndrome depicted in the movie Mask, may respond to treatment with imatinib (Gleevec), preliminary clinical evidence suggests.