An estimated 18,000 people in the United States annually suffer from new injuries to their spinal cords. Unfortunately for ...

Actor Eric Dane has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. “I have been diagnosed with ALS,” he told People magazine. “I am grateful to have my loving family by my ...

My fiance and I plan to have kids someday. I was wondering if it would be beneficial to keep our babies’ umbilical cords, which would be full of ...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a disorder affecting the motor neurons—nerve cells that control voluntary muscle movement. These cells are located in the spinal cord. Because the muscles ... blood ...

Technical limitations have excluded the spinal cord from imaging-based research. Available data are restricted to a few microstructural analyses, and functional connectivity data are absent. The ...

Multiple sclerosis causes lesions to the spinal cord and other parts of the central nervous system. An MRI can detect spinal cord lesions and help diagnose and monitor the condition. Multiple ...

Four weeks after LFBV, intervention group had significantly lower urinary leukocytes, postvoid residual volume, fewer signs and symptoms of UTI. (HealthDay News) — Applying low-frequency bladder ...

Researchers at NeuroRestore, led by Grégoire Courtine and Jocelyne Bloch, have developed a technology that combines rehabilitation robotics with an implanted spinal cord neuroprosthesis. Integrating ...

Here, we performed loss- and gain-of-function experiments in Xenopus laevis to reveal the novel roles of these proteins in spinal cord development and regeneration. We show that Marcks and Marcksl1 ...

spinal cord diseases and injury. Symptoms include urinary incontinence, renal damage and recurrent urinary tract infection.