Lief Fenno and a team from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital traced connectivity between neurons to identify how the ...

Although a motor neuron pool innervating one muscle represents a tightly clustered cell body aggregate in a defined position in the spinal cord in wild types, corresponding cell bodies in Foxp1 ...

The findings were published today in Neuron. "We have known for decades that the motor system is a distributed network, but the ultimate output is through the spinal cord," said corresponding ...

NervGen is engaged in groundbreaking research in spinal cord injury treatment. Read here for an update on the research's ...

Credit: Neuroscience News The resulting atlas and accompanying three-dimensional interactive website provide a framework to further understand the anatomical landscape of the nervous system and how ...

The treatment did not improve the recovery of motor functions in patients with complete spinal cord injury. In patients with incomplete spinal cord injury, the treatment led to significantly more ...

Summary: A Phase I clinical trial has demonstrated the long-term safety of neural stem cell transplantation for chronic spinal cord injuries. Researchers followed four patients for five years, with ...

The frogfish is an epic-looking sea creature that has a face only its mother could love. One of its most bizarre adaptations ...

brainstem and spinal cord. A combination of upper and lower motor neuron dysfunction comprises the clinical ALS phenotype. Although the ALS phenotype was first observed by Charcot over 100 years ago, ...

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 ...

The study, which followed four patients with chronic spinal cord injuries for five years ... including increased motor and sensory scores, and improved electromyography (EMG) activity.

As the current reached her spinal cord, Owen’s sensory nerves were able to make direct connections to her motor nerves, helping her to move her hands and arms. RELATED: Experimental brain ...