Pediapod: 26 March 2015 - What causes 'false brain tumor'?

27/03/2015 9 min
Pediapod: 26 March 2015 - What causes 'false brain tumor'?

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Sometimes, adults or children experience the symptoms of a brain tumor – headaches and vision problems – without an actual tumor. The formal name for this mysterious condition is Pseudotumor Cerebri Syndrome. Shana McCormack thinks that insights from kidney biology might help us to understand it. She's our podcast guest this month.
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