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

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

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

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 ...

whenever we employ this on people with spinal cord injury who will not have that ability to actually move their legs for us to label the data, we could use their imagination of moving a leg to ...

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 ...

Patients implanted with a spinal cord simulation system reported less severe pain from baseline to follow up. Treatment also improved sensory nerve function and thermoregulation in extremities.

A second, smaller chordoma was strangling Flores’s spinal cord near the base of the skull ... fear,” especially when another doctor has labeled a case inoperable. “Fear should ignite ...

But at 16, she she suffered a rare spinal cord stroke, leaving her paralyzed below the neck. The sudden change was devastating. “I actually walked into the emergency room,” she says.

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 ...