Peripheral nerves, i.e., outside the brain and spinal cord, are destroyed and cause burning, numbness, and weakness in hands and feet.” Difficulty with memory: Agnosia is one chronic ...

The nervous system consists of the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) and the peripheral nervous system (motor nerves, sensory nerves, cranial and spinal nerves, autonomic ganglia ...

Professor Mudher is using clever genetic manipulation in fruit flies to turn genes on and off in their nerve cells. This will reveal the genes responsible for helping tau (one of the proteins that ...