Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, have uncovered a previously unknown mechanism that helps pain sensing nerve cells stay ...

While the vast majority of myelin sheaths in the brain are laid down early in life, a pair of new studies published February 10 in Nature Neuroscience reveal that a fresh supply of the fatty axonal ...

A newly discovered mechanism that protects nerve cells could have important implications for understanding and treating ...

An international research team of Amsterdam UMC, VU LaserLab, the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience and the University of Edinburgh have gained new insights into the dynamics of myelin swellings ...

In the nearly 1 million Americans living with multiple sclerosis, the fatty substance that insulates the nerves of the central nervous system—called myelin—is damaged. This slows the transmission of ...

In a lab study, a combo of anti-aging drugs appeared to cause a profound loss of the protective coating myelin, which is a ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a serious neurological disease that usually causes permanent disability. Approximately 2.9 million people are affected worldwide, 240,000 in Germany alone. The exact cause ...

Learning has long been a neuron-dominated domain—a process governed by the strengthening and weakening of the connection points between neurons. In the last decade, however, the essential role of ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, have uncovered a previously unknown mechanism that helps pain sensing nerve cells stay ...

A widely used drug combination in anti-aging research may have a far more complicated effect on the brain than previously ...