Not the foot itself, not the ground beneath it, but a sensation somewhere above the injury that her brain had learned to ...

Automatic personalization of electrode placement for transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation can take it to the next level.

The healing of the spinal cord depends on carefully timed interactions between injured nerve cells and their surrounding ...

In new results from a clinical trial, researchers show that electrical stimulation of the spinal cord can restore the muscle control and sensory feedback required for coordinated walking movements.

Touch—the first sense to develop in the womb—is fundamental to our bodily experience and our everyday lives. Yet, as the least studied of the five senses, it remains somewhat mysterious at the ...

A team led by HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow Shan Meltzer has created a detailed, cell-by-cell map of the spinal cord that offers a new framework for understanding chronic pain and provides a powerful new ...

That’s the dream for any teen. But for Brooklyn, who lives with spinal muscular atrophy, or SMA, a rare genetic condition ...

A research group at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro has advanced polylaminin, a laminin-based biomaterial, from ...

Northwestern University scientists have developed the most advanced organoid model for human spinal cord injury to date. In a new study, the research team used lab-grown human spinal cord organoids - ...

A new model may help identify neurogenic bladder and other complications in patients with spinal cord injuries.

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 ...

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 ...