A drug pairing often promoted in anti-aging research may come with an unexpected cost in the brain. University of Connecticut ...

A two-drug combination frequently used in anti-aging research causes brain damage in mice, report University of Connecticut ...

The genetic mutation that enables yaks to live in environments with much less oxygen, and may hold the key to repairing nerve ...

New evidence of myelin's essential role in learning and retaining new practical skills, such as playing a musical instrument, has been uncovered by research. Myelin is a fatty substance produced by ...

Scientists have identified a genetic mutation that helps protect the brain function of animals that live in high-altitude, ...

Researchers have pinpointed a gene mutation associated with survival at high altitudes that could restore myelin to damaged ...

The "wear and tear" of aging is often noticed first in our bodies, but our brains also experience changes that make it harder to remember where you left your keys or the name of that acquaintance you ...

Scientists showed that a mutation in animals that live at high altitude promotes myelin regeneration, informing potential new ...

In long-lived animals, renewed but thin myelin sheaths are enough to restore the impaired nervous system and can do so for years after the onset of disease, scientists have discovered. In the central ...

Multiple sclerosis is a condition whereby the immune system attacks and destroys myelin – the protective coating of nerve fibers – which triggers movement problems characteristic of the disease. Now, ...

According to the World Health Organization, suicide is the fourth leading cause of death of 15- to 29-year-olds. About 1.9 million people between the ages of three and 17 are diagnosed with depression ...