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 ...

Neurological (brain and spinal cord) complications of HIV are very common during the disease course. Some of these complications are due to opportunistic infections, those that take advantage of the ...

What is spinal cord compression? Spinal cord compression is caused by any condition that puts pressure on your spinal cord. Your spinal cord is the bundle of nerves that carries messages back and ...

From there, these messages are sent to the anterior horn and the lateral and anterior tracts of the spinal cord. The motor message exits the spinal cord through the ventral root (the front portion) of ...

Lymphoma of the brain or spinal cord is also known as primary central nervous system (CNS) lymphoma. Or doctors call it primary cerebral lymphoma. This is a rare type of lymphoma. Lymphoma is a cancer ...

The dorsal funiculus in the spinal cord relays somatosensory information to the brain. It is made of T-shaped bifurcation of dorsal root ganglion (DRG) sensory axons. Our previous study has shown that ...

The spinal cord is a vital structure that connects your brain to the rest of your body. It extends from the lower part of the brain down to your lower back. The spinal cord relays information to ...

Spinal cord compression happens when pressure on the spinal cord stops the nerves working normally. This can cause back pain and other symptoms such as arm or leg weakness or difficulty walking. It is ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a condition that causes the degeneration of the nerve cells in the nervous system, affecting certain neurons in the spinal cord. ALS is a fatal disease that ...

The objective of this study was to generate automatic parcellation of the rat spinal white matter tracts using the manifold information from scanning electron microscopy images of the entire spinal ...

New method of spinal cord tissue repair Successfully synthesized hybrid biomaterial could be used to treat spinal injuries Date: November 29, 2022 Source: University of Limerick Summary: Unique ...