Reeve died in 2004, nearly a decade after an accident re-shaped his life. "Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story" is using ...

The DIY SOS star, 62, appeared on spin-off series It Takes Two with partner Luba Mushtuk just hours after hurting himself ...

"We first set out to understand why valproate causes spinal cord malformations in fetuses," Dr. Pietrogrande said. "To do this we created organoids—human mini-spinal cords in a dish—that ...

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 ...

Sep. 4, 2024 — 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 ...

20.These metal bars used to be inside someone's BODY. Basically, they were put there for three years to fix a sunken ...

The main function of the spinal cord is to carry nerve signals between your brain and the rest of your body. This includes motor commands and sensory information. The spinal cord also helps coordinate ...

Like a highway system, the vagus nerve branches profusely from your brain through your organs to marshal bodily functions, ...

In spinal cord injury (SCI), the severity of disease is quantified ... or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (120 pg/mL).12 Only limited human data is available beyond this time point: three of four ASIA A ...

The meninges of the brain and spinal cord are three layers of membranes: the dura mater, arachnoid mater, and pia mater. They create a cushion between the brain and the cranium (skull) and the spinal ...

The brain diagram, called a connectome, could revolutionize researchers' understanding of the human brain, which has many parallels with a fruit fly's ...

Brains are bewilderingly complicated systems of connections between neurons. Mapping those connections is an important step ...