A federal judicial panel centralized 49 lawsuits into two manufacturer-specific proceedings, again declining to put all spinal cord stimulator litigation before one judge. The U.S. Judicial Panel on ...

A Paris case report describes acute spinal cord injury after CAR T cell therapy, likely a rare spinal manifestation of the ...

The brain and spinal cord are the central pillars of the human central nervous system (CNS), orchestrating everything from movement to sensation. Despite significant advances in neuroscience, our ...

A molecular atlas of 89,494 mouse spinal neurons revealed 14 distinct groups within V1 interneurons, cells involved in coordinating movement. Loss of one small V1 subgroup was associated with slower ...

Aya Takeoka at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) in Japan and colleagues have discovered the neural circuitry in the spinal cord that allows brain-independent motor learning. Published in ...

Tethered spinal cord syndrome is a rare neurological disorder where the spinal cord is attached, or tethered, to the tissues around the spine. This tethering of the spinal cord restricts its movements ...

A new study links low vitamin D to severe muscle wasting after spinal cord injury and shows supplementation preserves muscle ...

What is the anatomy of the spinal cord? The human spinal cord is a cylindrical structure of nerve tissue that is protected by the spinal column and composed of uniformly organized white and grey ...

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 ...

A Minnesota pastor has died after sustaining a spinal cord injury while onboard a cruise ship for his son’s wedding. Stephen ...