Recent technological advancements have made recovery from paralysis a real possibility for the first time in history.

Thanks to a team at the University of California, Davis, there's a new brain-computer interface (BCI) system that's opening ...

Paralysis Patient Alerting and Monitoring System Abstract: Throughout many worldwide hurdles in politics, economy, environment, and social affairs, people still see health as their top worry. In a ...

We developed an ultra-thin implant designed to sit directly on the spinal cord, precisely positioned over the injury site in ...

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the University of Auckland in New Zealand have developed a ...

Researchers have developed a gene therapy that significantly slowed motor function loss in preclinical models of amyotrophic ...

Several articles have dealt with the importance and mechanisms of the sympathetic nervous system alterations in experimental animal models of hypertension. This review addresses the role of the ...

Mallory Wilkerson woke up to a strange tingling in her hands and feet — like they had fallen asleep overnight. Not long after ...

Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS): Often called the “fight or flight” system, this kicks in when we perceive danger or feel overwhelmed. Parasympathetic Nervous System (PNS): This is the “rest and ...

The autonomic nervous system (ANS) coordinates bodily functions to ensure homeostasis in response to the external and the internal environment. 1 This system can be subdivided into 2 branches; the ...

Most human herpesviruses are neurotropic and have the capability to cause serious acute and chronic neurological diseases of the nervous system. In this article, Gilden et al. review current ...

But, unlike vertebrate organisms, the octopus’s nervous system is also decentralized, with around 350 million neurons, or 66 percent of it, located in its eight arms.