Research News

  • Children with rapid-onset paralysis: is it GBS?
    Children with rapid-onset paralysis: is it GBS? by Patricia Blomkwist An interesting article* was published in the “European Journal of Neurology” about a study in children. Prof. Bart Jacobs (Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands) was one of the authors. He wondered why, contrary to expectations, some children diagnosed with GBS did not recover well….
  • Propionate Exerts Neuroprotective and Neuroregenerative Effects in the Peripheral Nervous System
    Propionate Exerts Neuroprotective and Neuroregenerative Effects in the Peripheral Nervous System A  recent study from Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, was able to demonstrate that the short-chain fatty acid, propionate, has a protective and regenerative effect on the peripheral nervous system in cell culture and in animal experiments. Dr. Thomas Grüter who headed the cell culture and…
  • Announcing 2022 Benson Fellowship Awardee
    Announcing 2022 Benson Fellowship Awardee, Elba Pascual Goñi MD, PhD The Benson Fellowship is a three-year fellowship that provides an opportunity for scientists to engage in peripheral nerve of study. The Fellowship provides funds of up to $150,000 for three years, but only one Benson fellowship is awarded every three year period. We are pleased…
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  • New Study Reveals No Association Between COVID-19 and Guillain-Barré Syndrome
    A UK based epidemiological study, linked below, has found no causal association between COVID-19 infection and Guillain-Barré syndrome. This means that GBS developing at the same time or close to that of COVID-19 is most likely coincidental.
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