The brain and spinal cord are the central pillars of the human central nervous system (CNS ... "This means that we can now see how different parts of the body are mapped onto specific areas ...

How did the bodies of animals, including ours, become such fine-tuned movement machines? How vertebrates coordinate the eternal tug-o-war between involuntary reflexes and seamless voluntary movements ...

Celebrities and Broadway stars, including Adam Lambert, Rosie O'Donnell and Sutton Foster reacted to Gavin Creel's death ...

One of the major breakthroughs over the last couple of years has been a potential new diagnostic test for Parkinson’s – a ...

ONWARD Medical N.V. (Euronext: ONWD), the medical technology company creating innovative spinal cord stimulation therapies to restore movement, function, and independence in people with spinal cord ...

Celebrities are mourning the loss of Tony Award winner Gavin Creel. Adam Lambert and Rosie O'Donnell were amongst the famous ...

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

Novel Immunotherapy Improves Recovery from Spinal Cord Injury Sep. 4 ... photon fluorescence microscope that captures high-speed images of neural activity at cellular resolution.

Tiny plastic shards and fibers were found in the nose tissue of human cadavers ... a membrane that protects the brain and spinal cord from many harmful substances. “This is a really interesting ...

Diseases of the nervous system refer to disorders that affect any part of the central nervous system (brain, spinal cord or cranial ... interplay between brain, body, environment and lifestyle ...

That led them to discover that the cells express a receptor that senses κ-opioids, which are naturally produced by the human body. The group went on to identify the spinal cord cells that produce ...