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

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 ...

We just returned from a reunion in Idaho with some of my closest cousins and their families. One especially poignant visit ...

New research reveals that Alzheimer's disease may impair nerve function not by reducing myelin, but by altering the proteins ...

Myelin sheath, a sleeve that protects a part of your nerve cells, and how it's related to multiple sclerosis. Read to learn more about its functions and how to protect it from damage.

UC Riverside study may lead to new treatments for multiple sclerosis. Multiple sclerosis (MS) affects an estimated 2.3 ...

While there is currently no cure for multiple sclerosis, researchers continue to discover clues to give a better ...

Scientists have developed a new treatment that may help regenerate myelin around nerve cells, and potentially reverse the damage caused by multiple sclerosis (MS).

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disorder that is thought to impact about 2.3 million people around the ...

Another approach, they argue, is to consider MS as primarily or initially a neurodegenerative disorder, and the death of neurons releases myelin, triggering a secondary autoimmune reaction.

In the future, we’d like to see a combination of drugs that can prevent immune attacks, repair myelin, and protect nerves from further damage.” If further trials are successful, perhaps PIPE ...

Of all brain cell types, microglia possess an exquisite ability to clean up gunk in the brain, including the damaged myelin in multiple sclerosis, pieces of dead cells and amyloid beta, ...