Parkinson’s Disease (PD) has traditionally been associated with the demise of central dopaminergic neurons. However, emerging evidence increasingly ...

Some forms of dementia may not be confined to the central nervous system; they may not even begin in the brain.

Neural crest cells are a population of stem cells that invade the embryo in early development. They play a big role in what ...

Others, however, believed that the peripheral nervous system (nerves that connect the body's extremities to the brain) played a larger role, as nerves in the moving limbs produced feedback signals ...

Your brain gets all the glory while your other nervous system, the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) toils away in thankless obscurity. What’s the PNS? Oh, merely the neurons that live outside of your ...

Chemotherapy remains one of the most powerful tools in the fight against cancer, yet it often comes with significant long-term side effects that can dramatically affect patients' quality of life.

A non-opioid designer molecule for treating chronic neuropathic pain by calming hyperactive pain-sensing neurons in the peripheral nervous system has had promising results in a preclinical study ...

On Feb. 20, Gregory F. Maassen, Ph.D., will share his incredible story of e-biking 5,800 miles throughout the country to raise awareness about peripheral neuropathy and funds for research. Join Johns ...

The obturator nerve is a large, multibranched nerve that travels through your pelvis to your inner thigh. This nerve helps you feel sensations like temperature and pain in your lower limbs. It also ...