Roughly 4% of the population is affected by a congenital brain malformation that has eluded researchers' efforts to find ...

An MRI scan shows a Chiari type-1 malformation, in which the cerebellum extends beyond the gap in the skull where it connects to the spinal cord.  Researchers at Washington University School of ...

For the condition, Chiari type-1 malformation, the diagnosis is straightforward ... There are, in fact, hundreds of variables for each patient -; ranging from clinical data and brain imaging to health ...

Then a contrast MRI screening eventually showed their cause. Hailey had a Chiari malformation - an anatomical condition where her skull shape forces the lower part of the cerebellum (the part of ...

They took him to the hospital where doctors performed an MRI of the boy's brain ... there is some evidence suggesting that ...