How the brain can miraculously switch off pain
It works by switching off nociceptors in the peripheral nervous system, and therefore preventing pain signals getting to the ...
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Physical Activity Initiates Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Release
The physiological power and biological value of brain-derived neurotrophic factor is so significant that it is often referred ...
Brain's Miraculous Ability to Switch Off Pain
In the second world war, the physician Henry Beecher observed that some of his soldier patients, despite being injured on the battlefield, required ...
Medscape29d
Fibromyalgia Pain Might Start in the Spinal Cord, Study Suggests
With normal spinal inhibition, the H-reflex response should have become smaller with repetition as the spinal cord regulates nerve activity ... known to affect neural transmission and could ...
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Types of Neurons and Their Function
There are many different types of neurons, and they all have special functions in the brain, spinal cord ... the neuron include the following: While glia do not directly regulate signal ...
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Prions found throughout the body in moose and red deer with sporadic chronic wasting disease
In a new study, researchers have also demonstrated that these prions can experimentally transmit the disease to mice.
The Conversation10d
Some viruses prefer mosquitoes to humans, but people get sick anyway − a virologist and entomologist explain why
Viruses cannot replicate very well in humans, which means transmission from ... system – the brain and spinal cord – the ...