What Is the Nervous System? Your nervous system ... or messages. Your spinal cord is a column of tissue that runs from the lower part of your brain to your lower back. It's a bundle of nerves ...

A new study published in Engineering reviews the latest research in tissue engineering for spinal cord injury (SCI) repair. It explores the roles of ...

Certain spinal cord lesions in people with MS show damage to nerve fibers despite having preserved myelin content, a possible ...

Broad rim lesions, which have wider rims of immune cells, are associated with faster disease progression in MS, per a study.

Most scientists studying SCI strive to develop therapies that preserve spinal cord tissue or promote axon regeneration. Similarly, in the clinic, hemodynamic management, surgical decompression and ...

Nerve cells in the spinal cord do not regenerate easily and scar tissue forms quickly ... What roles do chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans (CSPGs) have in the nervous system, and how is NervGen ...

By Dr. John Villano University of Kentucky Each year, thousands of adults are diagnosed with tumors that form in the brain or ...

The central nervous system (CNS ... these progenitor cells lose their regenerative potential, making adult spinal cord tissue less capable of recovery after injury. Identifying endogenous stem ...

It spreads through cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) to other areas around the brain and spinal cord. This tumor rarely spreads to other areas of the body. A rare cancer that develops in a part of the nervous ...

A lab develops brain wave decoder that may help in spinal cord injury rehabilitation.

A recent study published in the journal Engineering delves into the application of tissue engineering in spinal cord injury (SCI ... that affects the central nervous system, often leading to ...