Bionics engineers typically view biology as something to be worked around. “Anatomics” engineers the body to be part of the system.

The diagram of all 139,255 neurons in the adult fly brain is the first of an entire brain for an animal that can walk and see ...

The first wiring diagram of every neuron in an adult brain and the 50 million connections between them has been produced for a fruit fly.

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 ...

The microdecompression surgery of Woods' lumbar spine was performed for a nerve impingement of his lower back. The procedure was performed Friday morning by Dr. Sheeraz Qureshi of the Hospital for ...

When osteoporosis has made your bones weak, the chances are higher that they’ll crack or break, even the bones of your spine. These spine fractures, also called vertebral compression fractures ...

Neurogenic bladder is when a problem in your brain, spinal cord, or central nervous system makes you lose control of your bladder. You may pee too much or too little. You could have symptoms of ...

The nervous system consists of the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) and the peripheral nervous system (motor nerves, sensory nerves, cranial and spinal nerves, autonomic ganglia ...

It was the sixth surgery on his lower back in the last 10 years. In a brief statement on social media, Woods described it as a microdecompression surgery of the lumbar spine for nerve impingement on ...

The vagus nerve originates from four clusters of neurons in the brain’s medulla, where the brainstem attaches to the spinal cord. Most nerves in our body branch directly from the spinal cord ...

as opposed to the rest of your nerves, which branch off from the spinal cord. As most of the cranial nerves do, the glossopharyngeal nerve emerges from the front of the brainstem, which sits low at ...

back pain is classed as ‘non-specific’, meaning it can’t be attributed to an underlying condition like arthritis, or things like serious disc or other tissue damage, a fracture, nerve ...