Paul Foley received funding from the Australian Research Council, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany) and the National Library of Medicine in the course of his investigation of ...

Imagine a pandemic that spread across the world, causing death and disability to hundreds of thousands of people. Having lived through COVID-19, this isn’t too difficult a task. But there was one big ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn comparisons to the 1918 influenza pandemic. Both spread globally with remarkable speed, and their acute phases led to millions of deaths. What might come as a surprise ...

No one knew how to cure encephalitis lethargica (sleeping sickness) two years ago when Mrs. Jane Norton Grew Morgan, wife of John Pierpont Morgan contracted the disease. She drowsed for eight weeks, ...

Scientists were beginning to think that “dopiness” was not just a moral failing of a reluctant schoolboy, but perhaps part of a disease. “How different it will be when the doctors can pop a cerebral ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “People have forgotten what life is all about,” Robert De Niro’s character says in the film Awakenings after being revived from ...

An illustration of brain tissue seen under a microscope that was collected from a monkey said to have encephalitis lethargica. The image was included in a book about the condition written by Austrian ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...