Guillain-Barré Syndrome occurs when the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks nerve cells, disrupting communication between ...

The central nervous system (CNS) has very limited capacity to regenerate after traumatic injury or disease. In contrast, the peripheral nervous system (PNS) has far greater capacity for regeneration.

The human nervous system is defined as two parts. They are the central nervous system (CNS) and the peripheral nervous system (PNS). The CNS is located in the skull and vertebral canal of the spine.

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. Rabah et al. elegantly ...

Under this condition, which can result from traumatic injuries, infections, metabolic problems, or could be inherited due to ...

This process happens more readily with axons, synapses, neurons and glia in the peripheral nervous system.

In a case report published in the New England Journal of Medicine, doctors explain how they figured out the source of her fiery symptoms—worms burrowing into her brain. By this point, she was alert ...

A dramatic rise in type 2 diabetes has led to an increase in peripheral neuropathy. New research published in Nature from the lab of Clifford Woolf, led by Sara Hakim, at Boston Children's Hospital ...

The nervous system is the body’s internal communication system. It has two parts – the central nervous system (CNS) and the peripheral nervous system (PNS). The CNS includes the brain and spinal cord, ...

The peripheral nervous system is the part of the nervous system that branches out from but isn’t located in the brain and spinal cord. Demyelination can also result from exposure to toxins.

Mumbai has reported its first case of Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), a rare neurological disorder where the immune system ...

Guillain-Barre Syndrome has claimed two more lives in Maharashtra taking the total count to three. So far, cases have risen ...