These nerve pairs spread throughout your body to deliver commands from your brain and spinal cord to and from parts of your body. Diagram. The central nervous system and peripheral nervous system work ...

Each vertebra is numbered and grouped into 5 regions. Diagram. There are 7 cervical vertebrae in the cervical region. There are 12 thoracic vertebrae in the thoracic region. There are 5 lumbar ...

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Researchers at Kennedy Krieger Institute’s International Center for Spinal Cord Injury (ICSCI) have made a remarkable ...

Spinal cord compression (SCC) occurs in 5% to 30% of the oncology population and affects patient function, comfort, and general quality of life. Patients with lung cancer, breast cancer ...

Bourguignon, Lukas et al. systematically review the effect of drugs commonly administered after traumatic spinal cord injury on the neurological recovery in both animal studies and humans.

Colored green above, a songbird's cortex, which dominates the bird brain anatomy, functions similarly ... between the thalamus and the spinal cord. The yellow area is the cerebellum, which ...

A paralysed man with a severed spinal cord has been able to walk again, thanks to an implant developed by a team of Swiss researchers. It is the first time someone who has had a complete cut to ...

The purpose of cord cutting is to save a considerable amount of money each month. A "cord never" or "never-connected" is someone who never had such a subscription, while "cord shavers" are ...

Australian researchers are about to launch a human trial to treat spinal cord injury by transplanting cells from the noses of paralysed patients into the damaged area. Griffith University ...

Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty; Pete Cronin/Redferns/Getty Though now considered a cult classic, it turns out that This Is Spinal Tap was not an easy movie to make. The 1984 favorite, which stars ...

When I was a child I had meningitis which involved lots of intrusive procedures including a lumber puncture which is draining fluid off the spinal chord, so I had an immense fear of any needle being ...