The spinal cord is a vital structure that connects your brain to the rest of your body. It extends from the lower part of the brain down to your lower back. The spinal cord relays information to ...

Research teams have created a versatile set of gene delivery systems that can reach different neural cell types in the human ...

The nerves send messages from the brain to control movement and feeling in ... The nerves from the spinal cord extend into regions. The diagram below shows what regions of the body the nerves control.

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 ...

Because the spinal cord transmits sensations to the brain from all over the body, the position of the leads is adjusted so ...

A spinal cord injury (SCI) disrupts communication between the brain and spinal cord, leading to partial or complete paralysis. But recent breakthroughs suggest an unexpected brain region could ...

Your spinal cord is a glistening white bundle of nerves, which runs from your brain down a canal in your backbone. It's roughly 40cm long and about as wide as your thumb for most of its length.

The brain and spinal cord are the central pillars of the human central nervous system (CNS), orchestrating everything from movement to sensation. Despite significant advances in neuroscience ...

Using those brain waves, people were able to move their lower leg by just thinking about it, with an external electrode stimulating their spinal cord into producing the movement, researchers reported.