A University of Ottawa neuroscientist has led a Canadian research team to reveal important new insights into the activation ...

AI-powered research on one of the largest eye studies to date has created the most detailed maps of the retina ever produced.

The finding may open a whole new world in the study of Alzheimer's disease, said biophysicist Aneta Stefanovska.

Boosting communication between the spinal nerves and the muscles using the spinal cord stimulation reverses spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) progression and could be applied to other motoneuron diseases, ...

A small percentage have had vision problems, but a direct causal link with the drugs has not been established.

The nervous system is a complex network of neurons and cells that carry messages to and from the brain and spinal cord to various parts of the body. Scientists led by the Institute of ...

Katherine Behl is a physician and the mother of a child with alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC) — an ultra-rare neurological disease that is exacerbated by temperature changes.

The nervous system is the body’s direct communication system. It’s made up of the body’s many nerve cells. These cells work together in a network that sends and receives signals from one ...

Parasitic infections can invade practically any part of the body. Brain parasites, those that infect the central nervous system which includes the brain, are potentially the most damaging and the most ...

Market Snapshot Stock-market investors are getting nervous about this bond-market move that’s only happened twice in over 40 years Only twice since the early 1980s has the 10-year yield jumped ...

A treatment that could potentially slow the progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is being studied at the Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital. Dr. Olivier Blanchard and his team want ...