Mayo Clinic's Translational Neuromuscular Disease Research Lab led by Nathan P. Staff, M.D., Ph.D., studies the biological ...

Researchers have identified a network of connections linking the brainstem and spinal cord that helps control hand and arm movements, revealing an unexpected layer of the nervous system enabling ...

Electroacupuncture Promotes Neural Repair by Inhibiting Calcium-Driven ER Stress After Spinal Cord Injury. Schematic illustration of the proposed mechanism by which electroacupuncture at the Shenshu ...

When a two-year-old boy suffered a catastrophic injury that severed the connection between his skull and spine, doctors across Europe told his family there was no hope. His spinal cord was completely ...

Researchers have built a realistic human mini spinal cord in the lab and used it to simulate traumatic injury. The model reproduced key damage seen in real spinal cord injuries, including inflammation ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

There is a new hope for people with spinal cord injuries. Doctors are using an experimental, easy to deliver drug, with surprising results. A Chicago are a patient who got the drug says it’s nothing ...

NervGen will meet with the FDA early next year to align on a regulatory path forward for NVG-291 in chronic spinal cord injury. NervGen’s investigational peptide therapeutic NVG-291 significantly ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . There was an increased risk for psychiatric conditions in patients with TSCI. Researchers said the findings ...