What if chronic diseases, which are difficult to treat with medicine alone, could be managed with electricity? As ...

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 ...

After a spinal cord injury, cells in the brain and spinal cord change to cope with stress and repair tissue. A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Neuroscience, shows that this ...

Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have discovered a molecular switch in neurons that limits the ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have mapped how cells in the human spinal cord are formed in the embryo and what genes control the process. Their findings can give rise to new knowledge ...

Can we regrow damaged nerves? A new study identifies the AHR protein as the switch that limits axon regeneration.

Medically reviewed by Lindsay Cook, PharmD Both antihistamines and alcohol can slow down activity in the central nervous ...

In A Nutshell Stanford researchers traced a brain circuit loop, running from the spinal cord up through the brain and back ...

New research suggests that the immune system's ability to respond to spinal cord injuries diminishes with age – and identifies potential avenues to improve that response and help patients heal. The ...

March is Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Month, which always reminds me of my Aunt Rebecca, who was diagnosed with the disease ...

Spinal cord tumors are growths that develop in the spinal canal. These growths can originate from either the spinal cord itself or the bones that surround the spinal cord. Spinal cord tumors make up ...