By the time you’re an adult, you usually have 24 movable vertebrae (instead of 33) and the rest of the bones are fused together. While most people have a straight spine, some people have additional ...

A new study suggests that the spinal cord can differentiate types of pain before the brain is even aware of the injury.

Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny cells inside the body's smallest blood vessels may be a powerful spinal cord repair strategy, new research suggests.

It sends messages from your brain to the rest of your body and helps you respond to changes inside and around you. Your brain, spinal cord, and nerves are the main parts of your nervous system.

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

When a person sustains an injury to the spinal cord, the normal communication between the brain and the spinal circuits below the injury are interrupted, resulting in paralysis.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny cells inside the body’s smallest blood vessels may be a powerful spinal cord repair ... experiment involving human cells suggests ...

Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny cells inside the ... with spinal cord injury, researchers waited for seven days after the injury -- the equivalent of about nine months in a human adult ...