Unlike in healthy individuals, the immune cells of MS patients traffic to the brain and spinal cord, where they produce ...

Certain spinal cord lesions in people with MS show damage to nerve fibers despite having preserved myelin content, a possible ...

When a person sustains an injury to the spinal cord, the normal communication between the brain and the spinal circuits below ...

A lab develops brain wave decoder that may help in spinal cord injury rehabilitation.

Karla Flores had a tumor strangling her spinal cord near the base of her skull. Doctors weighed whether they should attempt a ...

This presumably allows for creating a solid scaffolding that can weld the spinal cord more permanently than liquid PEG-based solutions. Dowell also implements neuroprotection techniques such as ...

Scientists at UC San Diego are looking into the body's healing mechanisms for clues on recovery from spinal cord injury. A new study by researchers in the Department of Neurobiology (School of ...

When a person sustains an injury to the spinal cord, the normal communication between the brain and the spinal circuits below the injury are interrupted, resulting in paralysis. Because the brain ...

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 ...

This time, the surgeons faced a greater challenge. A second, smaller chordoma was strangling Flores’s spinal cord near the base of the skull. After much discussion, the medical team had decided ...