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 ...

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 ...

Tracer injections were used to locate the motor neurons in the spinal cord and study the differences in motor neuron ... spinal ventral horn, and our ancestors also once had dorsal fins ...

Research interests have included monoamine neurons, development, growth factors, regeneration, aging, transplantation in the central nervous system, models for Parkinson’s disease and its treatment, ...

Sep. 20, 2022 — In a new study, researchers show that weekly treatments with an epigenetic activator can aid the regrowth of sensory and motor neurons in the spinal cord when given to mice 12 ...

Spinal cord interneurons (SpINs) are highly diverse population of neurons that play a significant role in circuit reorganization and spontaneous recovery after spinal cord injury. Regeneration of SpIN ...