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

Our body has a spinal cord where bundles of nerves pass from the brain to the lower back. When the cervical spine (the neck ...

The success of phrenic nerve neuromodulation surgery provides hope for patients with severe spinal cord injuries and ...

A Somerset clinical scientist is exploring whether magnetic brain stimulation could transform how patients with suspected ...

She is investigating whether transcranial magnetic stimulation can serve as an additional diagnostic tool for degenerative cervical myelopathy.

When a person sustains an injury to the spinal cord, the normal communication between the brain and the spinal circuits below ...

1 Department of Rehabilitation, Jiangsu Province People’s Hospital, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China 2 School of Rehabilitation Medicine, Nanjing Medical ...

Robust Segmentation and Labeling of Vertebrae, Intervertebral Discs, Spinal Cord, and Spinal Canal in MRI Images Using nnU-Net and Iterative Algorithm.

Patients implanted with a spinal cord simulation system reported less severe pain from baseline to follow up. Treatment also improved sensory nerve function and thermoregulation in extremities.

The following is a summary of “Limited added value of systematic spinal cord MRI vs brain MRI alone to classify patients with MS as active or inactive during follow-up,” published in the April 2025 ...

Brain MRI showed no intracranial abnormalities and laboratory ... accumulation of normal adipose tissue within the spinal canal, leading to compression of the spinal cord or nerve roots. SEL can be ...