Peripheral nerves, i.e., outside the brain and spinal cord, are destroyed and cause burning, numbness, and weakness in hands and feet.” Difficulty with memory: Agnosia is one chronic ...

A recent study by the Hector Institute for Translational Brain Research (HITBR ... promotes the growth and networking of human nerve cells. These findings complement clinical studies on the ...

“The scan revealed a meningioma, a tumor in a rare and dangerous location near my brain stem and left optic nerve. “I was in denial and insisted they had the wrong person, but the truth was ...

Mapping the density, molecular features and energy-transformation capacity of cell organelles called mitochondria in the brain reveals region- and cell-type-specific variability that tracks with ...

Jan. 24, 2025 — A new study sheds light on one of the most severe consequences of stroke: damage to the brain's 'cables'-- the so-called nerve fibers -- which leads to permanent ... Brain Immune ...

Researchers identified a gene that seems to help slow brain aging in women ... a fatty sheath around nerve cells that “allows information to flow back and forth, like a highway,” Dr. Dubal ...

Whether mice persist with a task, explore new options or give up comes down to the activity of three types of neuron in the brain. In experiments, researchers at University College London (UCL ...

Interestingly, your gut contains around 168 million neurons, which are connected to your brain through your nervous system. The vagus nerve is one of the biggest nerves connecting your gut and brain.

Researchers at UC San Francisco have enabled a man who is paralyzed to control a robotic arm that receives signals from his brain via a computer. He was able to grasp, move and drop objects just by ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — It has long been thought that only nerve and heart cells use electric impulses to communicate, while epithelial cells -- which compose the linings of our skin, organs and body ...

But what's happening inside your brain to cause so much pain? The answer is complicated and may involve a combination of nerves, brain chemicals, and genes. Doctors know that the trigeminal nerve ...