An increase in high-fat, high-fructose foods in people's diets has contributed to a dramatic increase in type 2 diabetes.

The neurologist explains the link between Guillain-Barre Syndrome and paralysis, and the initial symptoms to watch out for.

New research on nematodes reveals how glial cells maintain and monitor neuronal dendrites. Neurons may get all the glory, but they would be nothing without glial cells. While brain cells do the heavy ...

A MAN has been sentenced after he stole and damaged a police body camera on a night out in Barrow. Connor Landsburgh, of Lord Street, Barrow, pleaded guilty to theft by finding and criminal damage to ...

Damage to myelin around nerves is called demyelination. Demyelination can cause issues like: The axon sends messages from one neuron to the next and connects neurons to other cells, such as muscle ...

Neuropraxia I Local myelin damage. Axons preserved. No degeneration. Axonotmesis II Endoneural tube preserved. Axon degeneration. III Loss of endoneural tube continuity. Perineurium intact.

Neurons rely on axons and dendrites for communication ... They found that glial cells respond to damaged cilia by accumulating excess extracellular matrix proteins and altering gene expression.

After ischemia, the axon remains capable of transmission for a period of time, indicating that the synaptic cleft is the first affected [20] (Fig 3). Neuropraxia I Local myelin damage. Axons ...