This includes motor commands and sensory information. The spinal cord also helps coordinate your reflexes. The spinal cord is ...

"This means that we can now see how different parts of the body are mapped onto specific areas of the brain and spinal cord," says Dimitri Van De Ville, head of EPFL's Medical Image Processing ...

They create a cushion between the brain and the cranium (skull) and the spinal cord and the vertebrae (spine). The meninges ...

Spinal cord stimulators are designed to address back pain and can be used as part of a patient's treatment plan.

As part of the Spinal Cord subscription package ... wellness and of course spinal cord anatomy, physiology and lesions (injury and disease). The journal covers practical topics for practitioners ...

University of Queensland researchers have made a significant step towards enabling women with epilepsy safer access to a ...

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 ...

A drug called bumetanide, which is used to treat edema in people, reduced this cellular swelling and resulting cell death in mice. Mice given the drug after an injury were better able to move their ...

Researchers have designed, in mice, an approach to minimizing the damage from a spinal cord injury through the use of engineered immune cells. Mice given the treatment had improved recovery from ...

Several studies have demonstrated that SPIO-labeled stem cells migrate into a brain or spinal cord lesion after transplantation; MRI detection was confirmed by histological analysis with iron ...

Nerve root compression occurs if something confines or irritates the nerve roots, or the part of your nerves that ... may relieve symptoms. 4. Spinal Cord Compression Any disease or injury that ...