ALS medication AMX0114 has been well tolerated in early clinical testing, and is now moving to a second, higher-dose trial ...

Patients treated with 0.05% urcosimod demonstrated directionally favorable improvements in nerve fiber count and fiber length ...

Cross-section of nerve fibers from the mouse optic nerve: The dark dense lines show the insulating layer, the myelin. Highlighted in red is a swollen, clogged area of an impaired nerve fiber – caused ...

Okyo Pharma (OKYO) announced new analyses of corneal images from the recently completed Phase 2 clinical trial of urcosimod in neuropathic corneal ...

The researchers discovered that the missing piece of myelin resulted in slower and less consistent signal transmission to the thalamus. "We had anticipated this, because myelin is known to be ...

A new study published in the journal Brain Stimulation shows that high electrical frequency stimulation can activate specific nerve fibers in the body MANHASSET, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Electrically ...

Small fiber neuropathy (SFN) is a neurological disorder which primarily affects the small, sensory nerve fibers of the peripheral nervous system. SFN damages either small myelinated (Aδ) fibers or ...

Kevin Tracey is a pioneer of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) research. Since the early 2000s, his team at The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research has been rigorously investigating VNS ...

Medically reviewed by John Carew, MD Key Takeaways The greater petrosal nerve is a branch of the facial nerve that helps ...

To rapidly transmit electrical signals in the brain, the long nerve fibers are insulated by specialized cells called oligodendrocytes. These cells also respond to the electrical signals of active ...