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 ...

However, it is clear that SCI-related problems extend beyond the spinal cord, most notably to the immune system. Future studies should determine whether preclinical models of SCI reliably mimic ...

Even advanced brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), like those developed by Elon Musk’s Neuralink, assume that paralyzed limbs are beyond saving. But a groundbreaking clinical trial in China has ...

Diseases of the nervous system refer to disorders that affect any part of the central nervous system (brain, spinal cord or cranial nerves) or peripheral nervous system. Large-scale analyses of ...

Domestic researchers in a world first have identified the causes of congenital spina bifida, a birth defect that causes ...

and the spinal cord and the vertebrae (spine). The meninges also provide structural support for important blood vessels and nerves and prevent cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), the clear fluid the brain ...

Researchers have used genetic tools to investigate how specific nerve cells in the brain respond after a spinal cord injury.