This includes motor commands and sensory information. The spinal cord also helps coordinate your reflexes. The spinal cord is ...

The world naloxone entered was dark, wet and loud. The decibel level inside a human body can exceed that of a vacuum cleaner, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Damage to the brainstem -- the brain's 'control center' -- is behind long-lasting physical and psychiatric effects of severe Covid-19 infection, a study suggests.

After a devastating spinal cord injury, mice’s nerve cells balloon up in size. Some of these neurons stay swollen longer than expected and begin to die, a study published September 25 in Science ...

Doctors use the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) International Standards for Neurological Classification of Spinal Cord Injury when determining the classification of injuries. If there is ...

A study looking at ultra-detailed MRI scans of people hospitalized with severe COVID-19 found that the disease affects the ...

A paralysed man with a severed spinal cord has been able to walk again, thanks to an implant developed by a team of Swiss researchers. It is the first time someone who has had a complete cut to ...

Symptoms of long Covid, including fatigue and brain fog, have been linked to damage to the brainstem or the brain region, ...