Multiple sclerosis, a neuroinflammatory disease that affects nearly 3 million people worldwide, causes a loss of myelin, the ...

Model developed in study will pave way for more discovery about important but mysterious process Ben Emery, Ph.D., and ...

Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases that cause slow, progressive damage to the optic nerve in the back of the eye, says Schultz. This growing damage is due to unsafe fluid buildup that causes pressure ...

No less than 16 different types of nerve cells have been identified by scientists in a new study on the human sense of touch.

Abducens nerve palsy symptoms cause the eye to droop inward as if “crossed.” This can result in diplopia (double vision), with eyes that aren’t looking in the same direction. Amblyopia (lazy eye) is ...

“The term glaucoma refers to a group of diseases that cause permanent damage to the optic nerve, which is the cable that ...

but it can cause the decreased function of the facial nerve due to a lack of signals from the cerebral cortex, causing weakness in the contralateral lower portion of the face. In some cases, a stroke ...

Researchers identified 16 distinct types of nerve cells involved in human touch and compared them with those in mice and ...

Medically reviewed by Qin Rao, MD Fecal incontinence, also known as bowel incontinence or accidental bowel leakage, is the inability to control your bowel movements. Someone with fecal incontinence ...

Muscle cramps hurt like crazy in the moment. What causes them to occur in the first place, other than a lack of electrolytes?

The loss of myelin, combined with ongoing inflammation, causes dysfunction and death of nerve cells, making the disability ...

The biggest difference the researchers found was in very rapidly conducting pain-sensing nerve cells that react to ...