Myelin is the protective coating around nerves that helps electrical messages travel properly. When it is damaged, movement, vision, and fatigue can worsen. Demyelinating disease can affect the ...

Neurological autoimmune diseases happen when the immune system attacks the central nervous system (CNS) or peripheral nervous system (PNS). This can cause neurological symptoms, and about 30 ...

Diseases of the nervous system refer to disorders that affect any part of the central nervous system (brain, spinal cord or cranial nerves) or peripheral nervous system. The correct diagnosis and ...

Nonverbal learning disorder (NVLD), also known as nonverbal learning disability, is a neurological condition which typically emerges during childhood but can persist through adulthood. It is marked by ...

LANGUAGE, whether written or spoken, is one of the most sensitive indices of central nervous disorder; in a variety of neuropsychiatric states the speech and writing of the patient may be the main ...

This activity was supported by contracts between the National Academy of Sciences and the Alzheimer’s Association; Cohen Veterans Bioscience; Department of Health and Human Services’ Food and Drug ...

Even more impressive than the number of patients who daily crowd Achille d’Angelo’s waiting room in Rome are the names of some of the privileged ones who come by special appointment. For a bad left ...

A new study from Karolinska Institutet shows that damage to small blood vessels in the hereditary disease CADASIL may disrupt important brain functions in the hippocampus, a region involved in memory.