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 ...

Scientists at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA have uncovered an ...

Newswatch 16's Kerry Kearns talked to a neurosurgeon at UPMC about the connection between the brain and spinal cord and when ...

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 ...

Symptoms may develop suddenly or gradually and may include pain or stiffness in the neck or back, balance issues, or a ...

With depression affecting around 1 in 10 of us at some point during our lives, the need for new and improved treatments is a top priority for researchers – and it appears that spinal cord stimulation ...

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.

New research shows that stimulation of the lumbosacral vertebrae region significantly elevated low blood pressure, unlike cervical or upper thoracic stimulation.

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 ...

Realizing a Phase I human clinical trial commencing to test the efficacy and safety of the transplantation of olfactory cell nerve bridges to treat chronic spinal cord injury. Since the passing of ...