Researchers have discovered that an FDA-approved drug acts on support cells in the central nervous system to encourage sensory neurons to regrow after injury. A spinal cord injury damages the lines of ...

Damages to the central nervous system (CNS), for example in the case of spinal cord injury, can result in permanent loss of sensory and motor function. It is because the severed axons are unable to ...

Your brain gets all the glory while your other nervous system, the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) toils away in thankless obscurity. What’s the PNS? Oh, merely the neurons that live outside of your ...

Research headed by teams at the University of Rochester Center for Translational Medicine and the University of Copenhagen describes for the first time how a spreading wave of disruption and the flow ...

Several age-related neurodegenerative disorders are characterized by the deposition of aberrantly folded proteins. The histopathological hallmark of synucleinopathies is the deposition of ɑ-synuclein ...

Peripheral afferent neurons—nerves that send signals from all areas of the body to the central nervous system (brain and ...

Theravance Biopharma, Inc. (NASDAQ: TBPH) today announced the launch of "Power in the Periphery," a new disease education ...

Struggling with nerve pain or peripheral neuropathy? These eight powerful vitamins can help repair nerve damage, reduce pain, and improve overall nervous system health. Find out which nutrients ...