20 September 2023
Recovering from Paralysis
Nerve affected by Bell's palsy – a rapid onset temporary facial paralysis of unknown cause – analysed by MRI reveals not axon damage but myelin sheath injury which can recover thus explaining why the disorder is usually self-limiting
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- Image from work by Yi Qin and colleagues
- Radiology Department, First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, XiQing District, Tianjin, China
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in Scientific Reports, September 2023
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