Neurons are the cells in the brain responsible for sending messages to the rest of the body, and scientists have long thought ...

A recent study by the Hector Institute for Translational Brain Research (HITBR ... investigated its effect on human nerve cells that they had cultivated from stem cells. The result: Even a ...

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 ...

Scientists at UBC have discovered a new type of brain cell, called ovoid cells, which play a key role in object recognition memory. This breakthrough could lead to new treatments for memory-related ...

Dear Doctors: I keep reading about how the vagus nerve has a lot to do with things like mood, digestion and keeping your brain healthy. Where is it located? Supposedly there is even a kind of ...

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 ...

Emily Cooke was five years old when a scan revealed she had an incurable ganglioglioma brain stem tumour in 2018. The Cooke family live in the Victorian port city of Geelong and despite receiving ...

In the case of migraine with brainstem aura, head pain typically is concentrated in the back of the head and affects both sides—the approximate location of the brainstem and structures (blood vessels ...

“Trans auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) is one of the less invasive approaches to modulate brain function in neuropsychiatric and degenerative disorder.” Daniel Dautan posted on ...