Researchers led by Jean-Paul Noel at the University of Minnesota, United States, have decoupled intentions, actions and their effects by manipulating the brain-machine interface that allows a person ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a relatively rare but very serious disease of the nervous system. A cure is not yet ...

Motor neurons carry impulses away from the central nervous system (made up of the brain and spinal cord) and control the movement of the body. These neurons coordinate muscle activity. Motor neurons ...

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People’s Republic of China Jilin Engineering Research Center for Spine and Spinal Cord Injury, Changchun 130021, China Department of Orthopedics, the Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical ...

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 cannot ...

“Chiwara fell in a mining pit near Mimosa and was rushed to Mberengwa District hospital where his spinal cord fracture was detected. He was transferred to Mpilo where he was asked for US$1 500 ...

“It’s called ‘clonus,’ so it’s spinal cord damage. It could lessen, it will never go away. It’s triggered, a lot of times, by emotions, anxiety,” Hay said. Going home is not an optio ...

The scientists implanted four spinal cord injury patients with pluripotent stem cells to grow millions of new neural cells. Okano said two patients recovered "some" motor function, with one ...

Spinal cord stimulators have grown in popularity over the past several years as patients see benefits in the less-invasive procedure. Stimulators help patients to treat chronic pain without invasive ...