Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive disease of the nervous system. It affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord called motor neurons. Motor neurons control muscle movement and ALS causes them to deteriorate ...
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La Trobe University-led research may have uncovered the cause of the neurological conditions seen in patients with long COVID, such as brain fog.
Jun 16, 2022
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Scientists at the University of Toronto and Sinai Health say they have identified a new way to control the fate of neural stem cells, bringing researchers one step closer to unlocking the mystery of how to repair the brain ...
Jun 1, 2022
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Currently available therapies to treat multiple sclerosis (MS) lack precision and can lead to serious side effects. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have now developed a method for identifying the immune cells ...
Apr 27, 2022
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COVID-19 patients commonly report having headaches, confusion and other neurological symptoms, but doctors don't fully understand how the disease targets the brain during infection.
Apr 1, 2022
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Epilepsy, one of the most common neurological disorders, is characterized by the spontaneous repetition of seizures caused by the hyperactivity of a group of neurons in the brain. Could we therefore reduce neuronal hyperactivity, ...
Mar 24, 2022
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Autoimmune diseases are the molecular equivalent of "friendly fire": The body attacks itself instead of harmful invaders. Now, researchers from Japan have found that interrupting the complex interplay between different immune ...
Mar 11, 2022
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Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and King's College London have shown that the length of nerve cells is intimately connected with their function. Their accurate model allows the study of structural and functional ...
Feb 7, 2022
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Researchers at the Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have developed a new mouse model of Huntington's disease that recapitulates more ...
Feb 2, 2022
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Scientists at Scripps Research have discovered hundreds of proteins that are constantly transported throughout the healthy brain in small membrane-enclosed sacs, revealing a new form of communication between brain cells. ...
Jan 31, 2022
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