Tag Archives: Nerve

[ad_1] Using post mortem tissue samples, a team of researchers from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin has studied the mechanisms by which the novel coronavirus can reach the brains of COVID-19 patients and how the immune system responds to the virus once it does. The results, which show that SARS-CoV-2 enters …

[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 25, 2020 Scientists find that nerve stiffness affects ankle flexibility in older adults but not younger adults.As we age, the joints become less flexible, causing balance problems that reduce the quality of life. Dr. Kosuke Hirata, Mr. Ryosuke Yamadera, and Prof. Ryota Akagi of …

[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 23, 2020 Researchers from the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden studied the incidence and regional distribution of Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers in the brains of people with Down syndrome. The findings may offer new possibilities for early diagnosis and preventive treatment of dementia. The study is …

[ad_1] November 11, 2020 Stress is a major cause of relapse after people quit smoking. Worrying situations, such as money or relationship problems, can affect the levels of neurotransmitters in the brain, leading former smokers to take a cigarette. Now, the researchers who report ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science found …

[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 11, 2020 St Petersburg University researchers, led by Professor Raul R. Gainetdinov, director of the Translational Biomedicine Institute and Academic Supervisor of St Petersburg University Hospital, have found a new role for the recently discovered neurotransmitter system that uses the trace amine associated receptor …

[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 5, 2020 Scientists have used gene therapy to regenerate damaged nerve fibers in the eye, in a discovery that could help develop new treatments for glaucoma, a leading cause of blindness worldwide. Axons – nerve fibers – in the adult central nervous system (CNS) …