Peripheral nerves—the network connecting the brain, spinal cord, and central nervous system to the rest of the body—transmit ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Axogen's nerve repair graft, the health regulator said on Wednesday, ...

The same family of chemical signals that attracts developing sensory nerves up the spinal cord toward the brain also serves to repel motor nerves, sending them in the opposite direction, down the cord ...

In tests on rats, researchers at Johns Hopkins and the University of Michigan have developed a treatment that helps spinal cord nerves regrow after injury. The findings will be published in the July ...

Peripheral neuropathy, in its simplest definition, is damage to the peripheral nerves located outside the brain and spinal ...

Mice engineered without the Nogo-66 Receptor (NgR) grew new nerve fibers after spinal cord injury, pointing to this receptor as a target for development of a drug to promote fiber recovery, according ...

May 2 (UPI) --A system that maps critical brain-to-spinal cord nerve connections offers hope for paralyzed people to regain movement in forelimbs, according to a study. Researchers at Cincinnati ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Spinal cord contusions are a serious injury. "When you have inflammation and bruising to the spinal cord, that can be a devastating problem for people's function," says Dr. Todd ...

What is the anatomy of the spinal cord? The human spinal cord is a cylindrical structure of nerve tissue that is protected by the spinal column and composed of uniformly organized white and grey ...