Sam Ballard was 19 years old when friends at a party dared him to swallow a slug.Within days, the Australian teen developed a rare form of meningitis and fell into a coma that lasted more than a year.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Kali Hardig, the 12-year-old girl who recovered from a deadly "brain-eating" amoeba, visited the site where she was believed to have contracted the organism.

March 26, 2015 Sea slug provides new way of analyzing brain data ...

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The sea slug Aplysia californica, a red, green or brown hermaphrodite that can grow up to 16 inches long, has the biggest brain cells, or neurons, in the animal kingdom, at up to a millimeter long.

Katz and team plan to map all of the sea slug's neurons and their connections – the so-called connectome – as new neurons are added by cutting the brains of the animals at different stages of ...

Sea slug provides new way of analyzing brain data Date: March 26, 2015 Source: Manchester University Summary: Scientists say our brains may not be as complicated as we once thought -- and they're ...