They were mainly in the form of distal sensory loss, parasthesias ... velocity can be the result of axonal damage. Thus, the predominant pattern of neuropathy in our patients was of the axonal ...

Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2E (CMT2E) is a slow and progressive neuropathy characterized by axonal dysfunction. Its clinical phenotype includes muscle weakness and atrophy, sensory loss and ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered new insights into how neurofilaments act like Velcro in neurodegenerative ...

"Diabetic neuropathy takes years ... thought to have a pathogenic role in diabetes and were mainly reacting to axon loss. But Hakim, Woolf, and colleagues observed just the opposite.

One type, the immune-mediated demyelinating neuropathies, includes Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP), multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN), and ...

You will be familiar with the British 'locked room' mystery genre: something of great value disappears from a locked room in a stately home. The question is how the trick was done, and the answer ...

Peripheral neuropathy affects nerves outside of the brain and spinal cord. Dysfunction of these nerves can cause spontaneous, inappropriate signals or loss of signals, leading to symptoms such as ...