Efficient removal of abnormal myelin allows survival of nerve fibers targeted by adaptive immune cells, according to a novel study.

Discover how the brain "eats" itself during a marathon, and how the recovery process opens doors to possible MS treatments.

While comparing neurons and transistors is a convenient metaphor (and not completely out of left field), the brain is ...

Marathon brain” is real, a new study suggests. A neurologist explains why running hard temporarily reduces brain function.

The term demyelination refers to the loss of the myelin sheath that surrounds and protects axons in the central nervous system.

MS causes white blood cells to attack or injure myelin and other parts of the CNS (central nervous system). The resulting damage and scar tissue on your neurons can slow communication between your ...

Efficient removal of abnormal myelin allows survival of nerve fibers targeted by adaptive immune cells, according to a novel study by scientists of the University Hospital Würzburg.

Therefore, the findings of reduced myelin and cyclodextrin-mediated restoration of myelin and cognition in mice with APOE4 but without Alzheimer’s pathology may or may not be clinically relevant to ...

Scientists have discovered that immune cells, known as microglia, help maintain the health of myelin – the insulating layer that forms around nerve cells – which is important for nerve cells in the ...

Myelin is a concentrically laminated membrane structure surrounding an axon around which lamellae (or cellular protrusions) repeat radially at a period of about 12 nm (Waxman, Kocsis & Stys 1995 ...