New study in @jclinicalinvest by @HopkinsMedicine researchers suggests experimental blood test can indicate spinal cord ...

Researchers at Keio University have begun using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) to treat and maybe even cure severe ...

Multiple sclerosis causes lesions to the spinal cord and other parts of the central nervous system. An MRI can detect spinal cord lesions and help diagnose and monitor the condition. Multiple ...

Experiencing a spinal cord injury is life-changing in nearly every aspect of a person’s well-being: physically, emotionally, and socially. The initial shock of the injury often comes with fear, ...

Medically reviewed by Eva Umoh Asomugha, M.D. Myelopathy refers to a cluster of symptoms that result from spinal cord compression. This can occur from trauma, inflammation, tumors, or the ...

ExoPTEN, which is advancing towards first-in-human trials. The study demonstrated that ExoPTEN significantly enhances motor function recovery and improves blood flow at spinal cord injury sites, ...

The vertebral column comprises individual vertebral bones with spinal discs between each bone. Your spinal cord goes through a canal in your spine. Between each pair of vertebrae are a right and a ...

Callahan has a spinal cord injury, so he wasn’t supporting all of his own weight or moving his legs by himself. But something had changed. He had a little bit of sensation in his feet.

Proper motor function depends on an intact nerve complex to conduct impulses between the central and peripheral nervous systems. Neurons, consisting of are incapable of undergoing mitosis after ...

The brachial plexus is made up of 350,000 individual nerve fibers (axons) that exit the spinal cord through five openings in the spinal column to form five nerve roots. Four of the nerve roots emerge ...