An estimated 18,000 people in the United States annually suffer from new injuries to their spinal cords. Unfortunately for ...

Researchers have recreated the human ascending sensory pathway in a lab dish, using organoids that model the key brain and ...

Myelinated neurons transmit electrical signals more quickly than the unmyelinated nerves in the body ... away from the central nervous system (made up of the brain and spinal cord) and control the ...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a disorder affecting the motor neurons—nerve cells that control voluntary muscle movement. These cells are located in the spinal cord. Because the muscles cannot ...

You can divide up all the nerves in the body into roughly two parts: the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system. The central nervous system contains two organs—the brain and the ...

Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) refers to damage caused anywhere on the spinal cord and its cells, including nerve cells, often resulting from car accidents, sports mishaps, and other traumas. Despite new ...

The CNS includes the brain, spinal cord, and optic nerves. A misdirected inflammatory response damages nerve cells of a protective coating called myelin. Myelin coats the nerve fibers from the ...

A spinal cord injury is a life-altering event. The nerves inside the spinal cord have been damaged, therefore interrupting the flow of information from the brain to the body. For some patients, this ...

Researchers at NeuroRestore, led by Grégoire Courtine and Jocelyne Bloch, have developed a technology that combines rehabilitation robotics with an implanted spinal cord neuroprosthesis. Integrating ...

C-shaped structure of white matter and nerve pathways called the corpus callosum. The corpus callosum is in the center of the cerebrum. The brainstem (middle of brain) connects the cerebrum with the ...