There exists a dire need to improve treatments for malignant brain tumors. Current strategies, including surgery, radiation, and chemotherapies, can have serious side effects and are generally not ...

The hypothalamus secretes corticotropin releasing ... Typical doses of dexamethasone used in the brain tumor patient are pharmacologic (i.e., supraphysiologic) in nature and have the potential ...

The hypothalamus is the main area in the brain controlling appetite. The arcuate nucleus (ARC) in the hypothalamus and area postrema in the brainstem have direct access to circulating hormones ...

UAB offers world-renowned specialists in the care of surgical brain tumors. Our neurosurgeons are board-certified or board-eligible and are active contributors to the cutting-edge of brain tumor ...

Causes for this dysfunction include malnutrition and cachexia, a systemic inflammation affecting brain mechanisms regulating ... depriving healthy tissue cells. Tumor-induced chronic systemic ...

Researchers have identified clinical and genetic predictors of multiply recurrent meningiomas (MRMs), a most aggressive form of this common brain tumor. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine ...