Like a slender, fragile vine made of highly sensitive tissue and a billion neurons, your spinal cord is like a living extension of your brain running through the body. It’s also one of the most ...

In a new study, scientists at the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology (LIN) and University Hospital Magdeburg demonstrated that the spinal cord is far more than just a transmission pathway that ...

In the near term, NurExone’s ambitious goal is to bring to market a novel treatment for acute spinal cord injuries (SCIs ... autonomic regulation of the body, affecting breathing, heart rate ...

“It's hard to think of an indication more difficult to treat than severe spinal cord injury in a human,” says Aileen ... that an improvement in lower body sensation or bladder control would ...

For the first time ever, a complex sense of touch for individuals living with spinal cord injuries is a step closer to ...

Stem cells from a human ... rat's spinal cord injury. This effectively created a pathway circumventing the injured area so that instructions from the brain could reach the rest of the body.

The New Year often inspires aspirations of profound transformation, though such resolutions frequently endure only briefly. Below are three tangible and practical strategies to reduce back pain ...

Electrical stimulation of the spinal cord is a promising strategy for reestablishing walking after spinal cord injury, recent studies show. But for patients suffering from muscle spasms ...

Neuroscientists discover a pathway to restore mobility, leveraging deep brain stimulation to activate key neurons and enable walking recovery for individuals with spinal cord injuries. Study ...