The brain and spinal cord are your body’s central nervous system. The brain is the command center for your body, and the spinal cord is the pathway for messages sent by the brain to the body and from ...

A spinal cord injury (SCI) is the occurrence of an acute traumatic damage to the spinal cord or nerves roots within the spinal column, including the cauda equina, that results in temporary or ...

The Texas Model Spinal Cord Injury System provides services along the entire continuum of care from emergency medical service to long-term follow-up and management of secondary conditions. The TMSCIS ...

Spinal cord injuries (SCI) are challenging to treat due to the limited regenerative capacity of the central nervous system.

Scientists have officially grown a notochord—the tissues that act as the “GPS for the developing embryo” by guiding the ...

In this new work, researchers first observed how sensory neurons connect to adipose tissue under healthy conditions and ...

A "groundbreaking" new material invented by experts at the University of Bath could help patients with Alzheimer's and ...

A new electrically active transplantable material that can help to regrow cells in the brain and spinal cord could redefine ...

While typical infections in spinal cord injury patients evolve in the lung ... Patients came from the 20 centers of the prospective SCI Model Systems Database in Birmingham, Alabama.