The family of Donnie MacRae, who died aged 33 in a prisoner-of-war camp hospital, want his remains reunited with his body.

Explore the role of preclinical MRI in studying neurological diseases, with a focus on advanced cellular and molecular ...

You can’t start a company without a healthy dose of daring, and that’s certainly the case with NeuroBionics. The MIT-spinout ...

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

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 hands, arms, legs, and/or feet) can vary depending ...

But scientists have long assumed that bacteria can’t survive in the human brain. The powerful blood-brain barrier, the thinking goes, keeps the organ mostly free from outside invaders.

Laminectomy is a type of spinal decompression surgery where a surgeon removes the bony arch from one or more of your spinal bones (vertebrae). This widens the space around your spine and can help ...

Figure 2: Immunoblots and semi-quantitative densitometric analysis of cytosolic fractions of control and injured spinal cord. Figure 3: Laser-scanned confocal images of DFF40/CAD immunoreactivity ...

The cells in the area are also connected with metabolism, suggesting a connection between diet and brain health. Scientists at the Allen Institute have identified specific cell types in the brain ...

Intelligence stems from brain-wide connections, not specific regions, according to JMU researchers. Their findings challenge established theories, highlighting the brain’s complexity. A new study ...

But what about the brain? “From a neuroscientist’s perspective, food is really fundamentally important for brain health, because our brains literally run on nutrients,” says Lisa Mosconi ...

If age is a state of mind, this is when the mind begins to decline. A new study has revealed that brain aging peaks at three distinct ages: 57, 70 and 78. The research, published in Nature this ...