A team that includes a RIKEN researcher has refined a lab test for measuring protein aggregate levels in samples from patients with certain neurodegenerative diseases. This has the potential to ...

A new technique developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology helps convert skin cells into neurons without needing ...

Blood tests showed elevated eosinophils, which can be a sign of a parasitic infection, among other things. They searched for ...

What Are the Treatments for Spinal Stenosis? Spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the canal in your spinal column that affects mostly people age 50 and older. Nothing can cure it, but there are ...

and spinal cord. The test looks for: The presence of medical devices can also affect the quality of the MRI image. Your doctor will check beforehand to see if and what type of devices you may have ...

Respiratory difficulties and mortality following severe cervical spinal cord injury (CSCI) result primarily from malfunctions of respiratory pathways and the paralyzed diaphragm. Nonetheless, ...

This process, called demyelination, affects the function of the central nervous system, including parts of the brain and spinal cord. This article reviews the link between MS and spinal cord ...

This article will take a close look at 10 types of spinal cord infections. Neurological (brain and spinal cord) complications of HIV are very common during the disease course. Some of these ...

Valentina had been in Philadelphia since August 2024, receiving treatment for myelomeningocele, a severe spinal cord malformation, at Shriners Children’s Philadelphia, family friends told Reforma. She ...

Angiopep-2 (Ang2) is an oligopeptide that can target the blood–brain barrier. Through single-cell sequencing and immunofluorescence experiments, we confirmed that the expression of LRP-1, the targeted ...