Using a mouse model of neuropathic pain, Li and Tolias reported last year in the journal Neuron that Tiam1 acts to coordinate synaptic structural and functional plasticity in spinal dorsal horn ...

Figure 1. A schematic diagram showing that the transmission of the sensory information from the periphery reaches the brain through three sequentially connected neurons: primary (red, located in the ...

dorsal roots, and central nervous system pathways and should be included as a regular component of the neurological examination. Although these sensory modalities share a spinal cord and brainstem ...

Peripheral terminals of these axons form nerve endings in the skin and viscera while central terminals synapse within the dorsal roots of the spinal cord where the signals from the periphery are ...

Spinal cord compression (SCC) occurs in 5% to 30% of the oncology population and affects patient function, comfort, and general quality of life. Patients with lung cancer, breast cancer ...

Posterior spinal artery infarcts are exceedingly rare due ... with a Pipeline Embolization Device(PED), she presented as bilateral dorsal cord syndrome. On exam, she had isolated findings ofloss of ...

Spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the spinal canal that causes compression of the spinal cord and/or nerve roots. Resulting pain and numbness (in the ... Specifically, your healthcare provider will ...

It is a lot like a freeway for sensory and motor impulses. But your spinal cord does more than act as a message center: it can make some basic decisions on its own. These “decisions” are called ...

1 Mech-Sense, Department of Gastroenterology, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark 2 Center for Sensory-Motor Interactions ... These mediators will stimulate specific nociceptive receptors in ...