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A research team has established an innovative intracranial pre-olivary pretectal nucleus (OPN) optic tract injury model (pre-OPN OTI), shedding light on crucial mechanisms of functional axonal ...

A study published in the journal Stem Cell Reports on March 23, led by Dr. Ryosuke Tsuchimochi and Professor Jun Takahashi, examined the effects of combining cell transplantation and gene therapy for ...

Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have discovered a molecular switch in neurons that limits the regrowth of damaged axonal fibers. The ...

Bianchi suffered the severe head injury in an incident at the Japanese Grand Prix on Sunday when the Marussia driver collided with a recovery vehicle that was attending to Adrian Sutil's earlier crash ...

Giant axonal neuropathy is a rare, autosomal recessive, pediatric, polysymptomatic, neurodegenerative disorder caused by biallelic loss-of-function variants in GAN, the gene encoding gigaxonin. We ...

Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), commonly referred to as 'concussion', affects over 1.7 million in the USA annually with costs of nearly US$17 billion. [1] Despite the name, these injuries are by ...

The central nervous system (CNS) in adult mammals has limited regeneration capacity, and traumatic injuries to the CNS usually lead to permanent functional impairment.

Neil Graham sees a lot of head injuries: “Car accidents, violence, assault, gunshots, stabbing—the works, really,” says Graham, a neurologist from Imperial College London who practices at St. Mary's ...