Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease in which the immune system erroneously attacks a protective insulation that surrounds neurons, known as myelin. As myelin degenerates, it leads to a variety of ...

The signals that drive many of the brain and body's most essential functions—consciousness, sleep, breathing, heart rate and motion—course through bundles of "white matter" fibers in the brainstem, ...

Combining a map of gene regulatory sites with disease-associated loci has uncovered a new genetic risk factor of adult-onset macular degeneration (AMD), according to a new study. The finding advances ...