In a first-of-its-kind surgery, a team led by a University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) neurosurgeon has successfully ...

Your brain, spinal cord, and nerves are the main parts of your nervous system. Important messages travel back and forth from your brain. They travel through your spinal cord and out to nerves that ...

Meningitis is an inflammation of the fluid and three membranes (meninges) surrounding your brain and spinal cord. The symptoms ... or hide out on food that a human then eats.

Scientists at UC San Diego are looking into the body's healing mechanisms for clues on recovery from spinal cord injury. A new study by researchers in the Department of Neurobiology (School of ...

“I spoke to one of his family members and he damaged his neck somehow and it’s affecting his spinal cord and some of the things that operate your speech and your legs,” Stone said of the 55 ...

Tommy Rowlingson became paralysed from the chest down aged 19 after being diagnosed with Acute Transverse Myelitis in 2022, a condition caused by inflammation of the spinal cord. Now, the 21-year ...

WILLOW SPRINGS, Ill. (WGN) — There has been an extraordinary step forward in the treatment of spinal cord injuries. For the patients who come through the door of the Next Steps clinic in ...

The application of holography in specific spinal disorders best demonstrates ... spatial relationships between the facet joints, the transverse processes, the pedicles, the vertebral bodies ...

Pain and temperature stimuli activate neurons of lamina I within the dorsal horn of the spinal cord, and although these ... cells could be assessed in one section. For a few cells, labeled ...

Standard histological procedures were followed, which included the dehydration and paraffin embedding of spinal cord sections in both transverse and longitudinal orientations, with a section thickness ...

A small clinical trial with a pharmacokinetic sub-study, led by a world-renowned pharmacologist at the University of Houston, has demonstrated the promising effectiveness of the drug Riluzole for ...