A dark spot on brain scans taken of 2024 independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s brain in 2010 was not a tumor, as doctors concluded, but a dead worm, according to a deposition Kennedy gave in 2012, The New York Times reported. The spot “was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died,” Kennedy said in the deposition, according to the Times. “I have short-term memory loss, and I have longer-term memory loss that affects me.”Kennedy spoke with the Times to confirm his memory loss and fogginess were gone, that he had no other side effects from the worm being in his head and required no treatment. The deposition was given during divorce proceedings between Kennedy and his second wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy, the Times wrote. Scott Gardner, curator of the Manter Laboratory for Parasitology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, did confirm with the Times that a worm could cause memory loss.

Source: New York Times May 08, 2024 21:45 UTC