Your brain, spinal cord, and nerves are the main parts of your nervous system. Important messages travel back and forth from your brain. They travel through your spinal cord and out to nerves that ...

This fluid is distributed to the exterior of the brain and to the spinal cord, where it provides a cushion against physical impact and helps maintain normal function. The brain and spinal cord tog ...

We are promoting heart and brain functions in people with spinal cord injury. This project is to examine the effect of acute exercise on heart and brain functions in people with spinal cord injury by ...

By Dr. John Villano University of Kentucky Each year, thousands of adults are diagnosed with tumors that form in the brain or ...

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

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 is ...

A lab develops brain wave decoder that may help in spinal cord injury rehabilitation. When a person sustains an injury to the spinal cord, the normal communication between the brain and the spinal ...

In most vertebrates, painful sensations are known to arise from the nervous system, which includes the brain, an intricate network of nerves and the spinal cord. While the brain's contribution to ...

Researchers in Ismael Seáñez’s lab have developed a type of decoder to restore communication between the brain and the area below a spinal cord injury. Through experiments in their lab with 17 ...