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Multiple Sclerosis

·June 11, 2012·2 min read

Research May Hold Key to Multiple Sclerosis Treatment

A receptor recently discovered to control the movement of immune cells across the blood-brain barrier may hold the key to...

Neurology

·May 14, 2012·2 min read

Smoked Cannabis Reduces Some Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis

Controlled trial shows improved spasticity, reduced pain after smoking medical marijuana. A clinical study of 30 adult patients with multiple...

Featured Neurology Neuroscience

·February 16, 2012·5 min read

New Molecular Map to Guide Development of New Treatments for Multiple Sclerosis and Other Diseases

A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute, collaborating with members of the drug discovery company Receptos, has created...

Featured Genetics

·February 10, 2012·4 min read

Researchers Develop Gene Therapy to Boost Brain Repair for Demyelinating Diseases

Our bodies are full of tiny superheroes—antibodies that fight foreign invaders, cells that regenerate, and structures that ensure our systems...

Genetics Neuroethics

·January 17, 2012·3 min read

A First: Brain Support Cells from Umbilical Cord Stem Cells

For the first time ever, stem cells from umbilical cords have been converted into other types of cells, which may...

Featured Neurology Neuroscience

·January 6, 2012·2 min read

Hopes for Reversing Age-Associated Effects in MS Patients

Proof of principle study suggests the age-associated decline of the remyelination process is reversible New research highlights the possibility of...

Neurology

·December 22, 2011·2 min read

UT Health Researchers Link Multiple Sclerosis to Different Area of Brain

Radiology researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) have found evidence that multiple sclerosis affects...

Brain Cancer Neuroscience

·July 18, 2011·2 min read

Cancer Cells and Stem Cells Share Same Origin – Brain Cells Grown from Skin

Scientists at the Keck School of Medicine of USC grow brain cells from skin Oncogenes are generally thought to be...

Featured Neurology Neuroscience

·October 25, 2010·5 min read

Computational Neuroscience Suggests Potassium Channels More Involved in MS Than Thought

Computational models of axonal properties suggest that problems associated with MS, and other demyelinating diseases, may be due more to an imbalance between sodium channels and potassium channels that play a role in the leak current in neuronal membranes, than to the currently targeted sodium channels of most MS drugs.

Featured Neurology Neuroscience

·July 19, 2010·5 min read

Gut Bacteria Can Affect Onset of Multiple Sclerosis

Gut bacteria, previously considered benign, has the ability to alter the immune system of mice enough to affect the rate of Multiple Sclerosis occurance.