The white matter is composed of several tracts (pathways) that travel up and down the spinal cord. Sections of the spinal ...

The brain and spinal cord are your body’s central nervous system. The brain is the command center for your body, and the spinal cord is the pathway for messages sent by the brain to the body and from ...

Aymard, Claire Giboin, Louis-Solal Lackmy-Vallée, Alexandra and Marchand-Pauvert, Véronique 2013. Spinal plasticity in stroke patients after botulinum neurotoxin A injection in ankle plantar flexors.

A spinal cord injury consists of damage to the spinal cord that results from external trauma including accidents, falls and sports-related injuries, rather than a degenerative disease. The effects ...

A collaborative study in neuroscience, spearheaded by a research team of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology ...

Living with spinal cord injury (SCI) can have a negative effect on person’s mental health and desire to participate in activities, so there continues to be a need to explore ways of improving mental ...

Believe it or not, your spinal cord may be a pathway to better mood and even an end to depression, new research suggests.

The discovery of a novel gene that regulates CNS axon regeneration could pave the way to treating central nervous system ...

Australian researchers are about to launch a human trial to treat spinal cord injury by transplanting cells from the noses of paralysed patients into the damaged area. Griffith University ...

"The important thing for us is not just to have a scientific trial, but eventually to give more access to more people with spinal cord injuries who are used to hearing from doctors that they have ...

A paralysed man with a severed spinal cord has been able to walk again, thanks to an implant developed by a team of Swiss researchers. It is the first time someone who has had a complete cut to ...