This explainer outlines how neurons and glial cells coordinate electrical and chemical signals to form complex brain networks ...

In addition, numbness may be due to a disease or medications that cause demyelination (destruction of the protective coating of nerves, called the myelin sheath). Less commonly, thumb numbness may be ...

More than 25% of adults in North America have dietary copper intake below the estimated average requirement of 0.7 mg/d1 Copper plays key roles in hematopoiesis, iron metabolism, and maintenance of ...

Pain is an example of an important sensory neuron. When you feel pain from a hot pan or a sharp ... Kaller MS, Lazari A, Blanco-Duque C, Sampaio-Baptista C, Johansen-Berg H. Myelin plasticity and ...

Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNSTs) are neoplasms of Schwann cells that represent approximately 5% of soft tissue sarcoma (STS) diagnoses each year. Patients with neurofibromatosis type ...

For a neuron, this means myelin. Participants ranged in age from 45 to 73, suggesting that even older brains remain remarkably adaptable. “Nobody foresaw that this would happen, that the ...

1 Department of Anesthesiology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States 2 Research Service, VA San Diego Healthcare System, La Jolla, CA, United States The myelin sheath ...

These attacks damage the myelin sheath, a fatty coating around nerve fibers, ultimately causing MS symptoms. EBV infection is “a key environmental trigger” of MS, “with infectious ...

Searching for Evidence of Light in the Brain “There are scientific papers offering indications that light transport could happen in neuron axons, but there’s still not clear experimental evidence,” ...