Each year thousands of patients face life-long losses in sensation and motor function from spinal cord injury and related conditions in which axons are badly damaged or severed. New research …read more Source:: Science
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Solving a biological puzzle: How stress causes gray hair
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•Scientists have found evidence to support long-standing anecdotes that stress causes hair graying. Researchers found that in mice, the type of nerve involved in the fight-or-flight response causes permanent damage …read more Source:: Science
Specific set of nerve cells controls epileptic seizures’ spread through brain
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•Experimental activation of a small set of nerve cells in the brain prevents convulsive seizures in a mouse model of temporal lobe epilepsy, the most common form of epilepsy among …read more Source:: Science
Experimental therapy restores nerve insulation damaged by disease
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•When the body attacks its own healthy tissues in an autoimmune disease, peripheral nerve damage handicaps people and causes persistent neuropathic pain when insulation on healing nerves doesn’t fully regenerate. …read more Source:: Science
After 15 years in a vegetative state, nerve stimulation restores consciousness
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•A 35-year-old man who had been in a vegetative state for 15 years after a car accident has shown signs of consciousness after neurosurgeons implanted a vagus nerve stimulator into …read more Source:: Science
Scientists block evolution’s molecular nerve pruning in rodents
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•Researchers investigating why some people suffer from motor disabilities report they may have dialed back evolution’s clock a few ticks by blocking molecular pruning of sophisticated brain-to-limb nerve connections in …read more Source:: Science
Regeneration of spinal nerve cells boosted
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•Researchers successfully boosted the regeneration of mature nerve cells in the spinal cords of adult mammals — an achievement that could one day translate into improved therapies for patients with …read more Source:: Science