Your brain, spinal cord, and nerves are the main parts of your nervous system. Important messages travel back and forth from your brain. They travel through your spinal cord and out to nerves that ...

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 ...

A Swiss research center is trying to use innovative technology to help restore bodily functions for paralyzed patients—and ...

it is clear that SCI-related problems extend beyond the spinal cord, most notably to the immune system. Future studies should determine whether preclinical models of SCI reliably mimic the human ...

Through experiments in their lab with 17 human subjects without a spinal cord injury ... The team used a special cap fitted with noninvasive electrodes that measure brain activity through ...

Clinical Practice Guideline published by the Paralyzed Veterans of America and the Consortium for Spinal Cord Medicine. The University of Alabama at Birmingham Spinal Cord Injury Model System provides ...

The nervous system consists of the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) and the peripheral nervous system (motor nerves, sensory nerves, cranial and spinal nerves, autonomic ganglia ...

Sensory neurones carry electrical signals - nerve impulses - towards the central nervous system (spinal cord and brain). The signal starts in a receptor which detects a change. Relay neurones ...