These nerve pairs spread throughout your body to deliver commands from your brain and spinal cord to and from parts of your ... together to allow your brain to control your body’s many functions, ...

Like a highway system, the vagus nerve branches profusely from your brain through your organs to marshal bodily functions, ...

These nerves are responsible for the muscular function and sensation of the arm ... ligaments that cause disc material to push into the spinal canal. These can compress, or pinch, the nerve ...

Spinal stenosis results from narrowing spaces within the spine that put pressure on the spinal cord and nerves, causing pain, ...

Nerves such as the phrenic nerves are made up of axon fibers, which convey information to and from the brain. Nervous tissue ...

so that damage to a single nerve will cause a specific loss of function, for instance, damage to the seventh cranial (facial) nerve can distort your smile. The spinal nerves control your upper limbs, ...

Depending on where the spinal cord and nerve roots are damaged ... patient to a "complete" injury which means a total loss of function. Treatment of spinal cord injuries starts with restraining ...

David Julius and Wendy Yue have discovered a natural mechanism that could help reduce scarring after a spinal cord injury.

Indicators of a response to radiation therapy include pain relief and a return to baseline function or improved ... of analgesic administration, nerve blocks, corticosteroid therapy, and side ...

Interpretation of clinical findings of BPI in newborns depends on knowledge of peripheral nervous system (PNS) structures and physiology. All nervous system structures originate from the embryonic ...

We established a slice culture method for mid-gestation embryos to examine nerve outgrowth from the spinal cord and the DRGs into the periphery. We applied neurotrophins and function-blocking ...