In long-lived animals, renewed but thin myelin sheaths are enough to restore the impaired nervous system and can do so for years after the onset of disease, scientists have discovered. In the central ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Macular retinal nerve fiber layer thickness may be a prognostic biomarker of cognitive decline in older ...

Neurons are the basic functional units of the brain. They have three main parts: dendrites, a cell body, and an axon (more commonly known as a nerve fiber). Dendrites look like twigs growing off the ...

After nerve injury, the protein complex mTORC1 takes over an important function in skeletal muscle to maintain the neuromuscular junction, the synapse between the nerve and muscle fiber. Researchers ...

A genetic mutation that helps animals like yaks and Tibetan antelopes survive at high altitudes may hold the key to repairing ...

This press release is available in German. Around 100 billion neurons in the human brain enable us to think, feel and act. They transmit electrical impulses to remote parts of the brain and body via ...

Kevin Tracey is a pioneer of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) research. Since the early 2000s, his team at The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research has been rigorously investigating VNS ...

The obturator nerve is a large, multibranched nerve that travels through your pelvis to your inner thigh. This nerve helps you feel sensations like temperature and pain in your lower limbs. It also ...

Vagus nerve stimulation may treat many diseases by changing brain signals, inflammation, and organ communication.