The brain and spinal cord are the central pillars of the human central nervous system (CNS), orchestrating everything from movement to sensation. Despite significant advances in neuroscience, our ...

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — The brain is undeniably the most complex part of the human body. "So the brain sends signals through the spinal cord and vice versa, and it affects the way that we move and the way ...

People with spinal cord injuries often lose movement even though their brains still send the right signals. Researchers ...

An individual may become completely paralyzed because of any number of accidents that interfere with the functioning of the ...

Researchers have developed a way to grow a highly specialized subset of brain nerve cells that are involved in motor neuron disease and damaged in spinal injuries. Their study, published today in ...

A research team has developed a way to produce a subset of highly specialised brain neurons that centrally degenerate in motor neuron disease and are damaged in spinal cord injury, laying foundations ...

When a person sustains an injury to the spinal cord, the normal communication between the brain and the spinal circuits below the injury is interrupted, resulting in paralysis. Because the brain is ...

A brain cap and smart algorithms may one day help paralyzed patients turn thought into movement—no surgery required.

A 10-minute brain scan can predict the effectiveness of a risky spinal surgery to alleviate intractable pain. The result gives doctors a much-needed biomarker to discuss with patients considering ...