Stroke and spinal cord injuries can severely impair motor functions, and understanding how to promote recovery is a critical challenge. While damaged neurons in the brain and spinal cord have limited ...

A breakthrough from the University of Cambridge is offering new hope for one of medicine’s most stubborn challenges: repairing damage to the brain and spinal cord. By growing miniature connected ...

Electrical stimulation of the spinal cord, such as following a spinal cord injury, has made great strides in recent years. However, high-frequency stimulation pulses, which are used in many current ...

A University of Iowa researcher has won more than $500,000 in grants to merge machine learning with a technique called ...

A drug originally developed for spinal cord injury may offer a fresh approach to treating Alzheimer’s disease. In mouse ...

"These spinal cord cells are important for helping the body adjust its breathing in response to changes like high CO 2 levels," Philippidou said. In this study, the team used genetically modified ...

Patients frequently reveal back pain and general body aches and discomfort; however, it is important to consider differential diagnoses beyond neuro-skeletal disorders. As a primary care provider (PCP ...

Recently, in a study posted in the Neurons Journal, scientists at the Salk Institute identified a brain pathway that is associated with the mechanical sensation of itching. It is distinctly different ...