A new statistical review reveals that people diagnosed with psychiatric conditions tend to have a physically smaller pineal ...

With increasing use of ever more sophisticated brain and spinal cord diagnostic technology, more children are being referred to pediatric neurosurgeons for unexpected findings on MRI. Incidental ...

Pineal cysts are usually midline, round/oval, smoothly contoured, and homogeneous. A heterogeneous appearance may reflect bleeding or calcification. Immediately after gadolinium infusion, ...

The pineal region, situated at the junction of the midbrain and the third ventricle, is host to a variety of lesions including cysts, germ cell tumours, pineal parenchymal neoplasms and vascular ...

Similarities among three pediatric brain tumors that arise in different structures of the CNS – pineoblastoma, retinoblastoma and Group 3 medulloblastoma – have been linked to their shared origin ...