News tagged with nerve fibre

Neuro signals study gives new insight into brain disorders

Research into how the brain transmits messages to other parts of the body could improve understanding of disorders such as epilepsy, dementia, multiple sclerosis and stroke.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 14, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Origin of cells associated with nerve repair discovered

Scientists have discovered the origin of a unique type of cell known for its ability to support regeneration in the central nervous system. Their findings, published this week in the journal Proceedings of ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists reveal how snakes 'see' at night

Scientists revealed Sunday for the first time how some snakes can detect the faint body heat exuded by a mouse a metre (three feet) away with enough precision and speed to hunt in the dark.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 15, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Mystery solved: Facial cancer decimating Tasmanian devils likely began in Schwann cells

An international team of scientists led by a Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) investigator has discovered that the deadly facial tumors decimating Australia's Tasmanian devil population probably originated ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 31, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Apathy common in dementia patients with brain changes

Dementia patients with a certain type of changes in their brain's white matter are more likely to be apathetic than those who do not have these changes, reveals a patient study carried out by the Sahlgrenska Academy and Sahlgrenska ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New findings on the formation of body pigment

(PhysOrg.com) -- The skin's pigment cells can be formed from completely different cells than has hitherto been thought, a new study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet shows. The results, which are published ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

One small step for neurons, one giant leap for nerve cell repair

The repair of damaged nerve cells is a major problem in medicine today. A new study by researchers at the Montreal NeurologicaI Institute and Hospital (The Neuro) and McGill University, is a significant advance towards a ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Scientists reveal secret of girl with 'all seeing eye'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered how a 10-year-old girl born with half a brain is able to see normally through one eye. The youngster, from Germany, has both fields of vision in one eye and is the ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jul 20, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (60) | comments 6

New clue into how brain stem cells develop into cells which repair damaged tissue

The joint research, funded by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and the UK MS Society as well as the National Institutes of Health and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, was conducted by scientists at the University ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Prescribing sunshine for multiple sclerosis?

Could a holiday in the sun reduce the risk of developing multiple sclerosis? In a recent review for F1000 Medicine Reports, Bridget Bagert and Dennis Bourdette highlight recent advances in potential treatments.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Signals from stroking have direct route to brain

Nerve signals that tell the brain that we are being slowly stroked on the skin have their own specialised nerve fibres in the skin. This is shown by a new study from the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Genetic study shows direct link between vitamin D and MS susceptibility 'gene'

Researchers have found evidence that a direct interaction between vitamin D and a common genetic variant alters the risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS). The research, published on 6 February in the open-access journal ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0