Your spinal cord can make its own memories independent of your brain, neuroscientists have found. The discovery opens up new ...

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 ...

An unparalleled opportunity for the study of long-surviving patients with traumatic lesions of the spinal cord has been afforded by World War II, and knowledge of the reflex functions of the cord ...

Previous anatomical studies demonstrated that C-LTMRs gather touch information from the skin and transmit it to the other end of the cell, which is located in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord (in a ...

New research from the University of Western Ontario (ON, Canada) has found that the spinal cord may be ‘smarter’ than originally thought. As well as playing an important role in the pain reflex and ...

A reflex action follows this general sequence ... Sensory neuron sends electrical impulses to a relay neuron, which is located in the spinal cord of the CNS. Relay neurons connect sensory neurons ...

The spinal cord implant delivers well-timed electrical pulses to muscles, stimulating natural muscle activity coordinated ...

and improved sensory recovery and urinary reflex restoration. The regenerative effects observed with ExoPTEN in the severe spinal cord transection model suggest that it may also have therapeutic ...

The health provider will use tools such as lights, reflex hammers ... which captures nerve activity from the brain or spinal cord to a peripheral nerve such as in the arm or leg.

Orthostatic Hypotension (OH) is defined as a decrease in systolic blood pressure of 20 mmHg or more, or diastolic blood pressure of 10 mmHg or more with changes in position, which, for people with ...