L ike a slender, fragile vine made of highly sensitive tissue and a billion neurons, your spinal cord is like a living ...

Medically reviewed by Lauren Schlanger, MD A dermatome is an area of skin that gets its sensation from a specific spinal ...

This pathway depends on the crossing of neurons from one side of the central nervous system (CNS ... to targets on the opposite side of the spinal column. Therefore, the left side of the brain ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered new details about how the spinal column forms in developing vertebrates, according to a study published in Developmental Cell. While it has been ...