The meningococcal meningitis fatality rate is around 15% for teens and young adults, Marshall explained. And those who ...

Every child deserves to grow up healthy, to smile, and to dream. Yet, there are times when an unexpected diagnosis can change everything. A family’s daily life can suddenly become a race against time, ...

The brain is undeniably the most complex part of the human body. "So the brain sends signals through the spinal cord and vice ...

The impact disconnected the 2-year-old's head from his spine, resulting in a transection of his spinal cord. Doctors offered ...

A lab develops brain wave decoder that may help in spinal cord injury rehabilitation. When a person sustains an injury to the spinal cord, the normal communication between the brain and the spinal ...

Neuroscientists discover a pathway to restore mobility, leveraging deep brain stimulation to activate key neurons and enable walking recovery for individuals with spinal cord injuries. Study: ...

New research suggests that paralyzed patients could regain some degree of movement — perhaps even walk again. In a study led by EPFL (Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne) and Lausanne ...

In 2006, Wolfgang Jäger was in his 30s when a skiing accident left the young Austrian wheelchair-bound from a spinal cord injury. Fast-forward to today, where an innovative deep-brain stimulation ...

Belly sleepers are probably the most susceptible to neck and back problems. That’s because their neck is more likely to be in ...

Research teams have created a versatile set of gene delivery systems that can reach different neural cell types in the human brain and spinal cord with exceptional accuracy. These delivery systems are ...