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 muscular atrophy (SMA) is a disorder affecting the motor neurons—nerve cells that control voluntary muscle movement. These cells are located in the spinal cord. Because the muscles cannot ...

The spinal cord is the bundle of nerves running down the middle of the back. It sends send messages back and forth from the brain to muscles and soft tissues. As the spinal cord travels down the back, ...

Department of Medical Imaging, Shanxi Key Laboratory of Intelligent Imaging and Nanomedicine, First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan 030001, P. R. China Laboratory Animal Center, Shanxi ...

Most of the nerves in your body originate in the spinal cord. The 12 nerves in your head are different. They're called cranial nerves and they emerge, as symmetrical pairs, from the brain itself. Ten ...

His team has created nerve bridges from olfactory ensheathing cells, overcoming previous limitations involved in the transplantation of cells directly into the spinal cord. Professor St John said ...

Novavax’s plans for growth outside of its COVID program have been thrown into chaos after the FDA put two of the biopharma's programs on hold in response to a case of nerve disease from a former ...

An experimental new therapy is restoring more function for patients with spinal cord injury, without invasive surgery ... signals throughout the body and activates the local network of nerves in the ...

If the spinal cord is damaged, instructions from the brain telling muscles to move can't be transmitted, causing paralysis. Since nerve injury is irreversible, current treatments for such patients ...