Glial cells support neurological structures, function, cognition, behaviours, physical skills, and motor coordination.

New research reveals that Alzheimer's disease may impair nerve function not by reducing myelin, but by altering the proteins ...

Marathon brain” is real, a new study suggests. A neurologist explains why running hard temporarily reduces brain function.

He suspects the brain routinely taps into myelin for fuel, just at levels too low to detect—except during extreme events like a marathon. But there’s no need to panic, he says.

And even though this myelin known as myelin water fraction (MWF) has "water" in its name, the depletion in these 12 areas had nothing to do with a runner's hydration levels.

Marathon running causes a temporary decline in brain myelin content, but levels return to normal within two months. This reversible change may reflect the brain tapping into myelin lipids as an ...

A study finds that marathon running temporarily reduces brain myelin content, but levels fully recover within two months.

Professor Peter Falkai, a leading authority in psychiatric research and new Director at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, explains how understanding brain plasticity and myelin regeneration ...

The National Multiple Sclerosis Society (USA) has awarded a grant of 1 million dollars to Dr. Isabel Pérez-Otaño, who leads the Plasticity and Remodeling of Neural Circuits laboratory at the ...

Multiple sclerosis is a disease of the brain and spinal cord caused by the loss of myelin. It affects more than 2.8 million people worldwide. The team led by Professor Pérez-Otaño at the Institute for ...

They’ve also shown that adaptive myelination could explain worsening epileptic seizures in some patients and linked reduced myelin plasticity to the cognitive impairment in patients receiving ...