About 13% of neurological patients in emergency units complain of vertigo or dizziness; a diagnosis of a central vestibular disorder is established in about 25% of all outpatients who visit dizziness ...

After a concussion occurs, symptoms most commonly experienced are headache, dizziness, memory problems and sleep disturbances, as well as visual dysfunction. Such symptoms can be difficult to quantify ...

Glial cells, which help neurons communicate with each other, can leave the central nervous system and cross into the peripheral nervous system to compensate for missing cells, according to new ...

A new review paper was published in Aging titled "Peripheral vascular dysfunction and the aging brain." Aging is the greatest non-modifiable risk factor for most diseases, including cardiovascular ...

A study reported that patients who sustained a concussion, followed by symptoms of visual dysfunction, experienced significantly delayed central and peripheral vision reaction times. After a ...

Our understanding of the mechanisms of diseases that result in impaired functional capacity, and impair an individual's ability to work, recreate, and perform activities of daily living, has evolved ...

Researchers have shed further light on a significant subset of patients with knee pain -- those with neuropathic-like knee pain (NKP) that includes knee pain modified by central and peripheral ...

While most Down syndrome research has focused on the brain, a new report by Johns Hopkins University biologists uncovers how the disorder hampers a separate part of the nervous system that plays a key ...

– Data demonstrate that ARV-102 was well tolerated, orally bioavailable, and brain-penetrant; ARV-102 achieved central and peripheral LRRK2 reduction indicating substantial LRRK2 protein degradation ...

Vestibular dysfunction was shown to be a determinant of imbalance in Parkinson disease independent from visual and somatosensory processing changes and nigrostriatal dopaminergic losses. Imbalance in ...