The Johns Hopkins-created maps provide higher resolution and better coverage of gray matter than previously published maps, ...

An international research team has gained new insights into the dynamics of myelin swellings in the brain. Myelin swellings ...

New research shows early Multiple Sclerosis brain damage is dynamic and reversible. Myelin swellings can shrink and disappear ...

Myelin, a sheath of insulation around nerves that enables electrical impulses to efficiently travel through the central nervous system, is diminished in mice that have a gene deletion associated with ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...

Scientists from Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and the University of Edinburgh have discovered that a little-understood junction that connects neurons to oligodendrocyte precursor cells ...

A breakthrough study appears to overcome difficulties that have long frustrated previous attempts to reverse a form of nerve damage that robs people with MS of motor control and gradually blunts ...

The disruption of axons—the thread-like part of nerve cells that transmits electrical signals—is associated with Alzheimer's disease. One way axonal function may be hindered is through damage to the ...

In a new study, mice bearing a gene deletion associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) showed evidence of slower cognition. Another finding: cells that make myelin, a sheath around nerves that ...