Boosting communication between the spinal nerves and the muscles using the spinal cord stimulation reverses spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) progression and could be applied to other motoneuron diseases, ...

The diagnosis of spinal cord lymphoma is often delayed due to the high risks associated with a spinal cord biopsy, the rarity of the disease, and the lack of specificity of its clinicoradiological ...

An intervention, which involves electrical stimulation of the sensory spinal nerves, can gradually reawaken functionally silent motor neurons in the spinal cord and improve leg muscle strength and ...

Central nervous system (CNS ... This optimizes the scaffold’s structure, encouraging the growth of neural stem cells in a specific direction as they would grow in a spinal cord –enhancing their ...

An intervention, which involves electrical stimulation of the sensory spinal nerves, can gradually reawaken functionally ...

The nervous system is a complex network of neurons and cells that carry messages to and from the brain and spinal cord to various ... that mimic the original structure and the molecular property ...

In the second world war, the physician Henry Beecher observed that some of his soldier patients, despite being injured on the ...

The structure of the neuron includes ... For this reason, specific injuries to the nervous system are permanent, such as spinal cord injuries. In some cases, healthy neurons in the brain can ...

Fundamental concept to first understand is that you don’t detect pain – it is a sensation that your brain has created – from ...

It contains the majority of the nervous system and consists of the brain and the spinal cord. Together with the peripheral nervous system it has a fundamental role in the control of behavior.

Inside MIT's Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center, on the springy blue mat of the gymnastics room, an unconventional anatomy lesson unfolded during an ...