Scientists at UC San Diego are looking into the body's healing mechanisms for clues on recovery from spinal cord injury. A new study by researchers in the Department of Neurobiology (School of ...

Spinal cord injury often results in permanent paralysis as a consequence of the inability of axons to regenerate across the lesion. Although the adult spinal cord is currently known to be capable ...

Scientists develop lab-grown model of the human sensory pathway to investigate how pain signals are transmitted to the brain.

Purpose. The pharmacokinetics of amino-glycosides in patients with chronic spinal cord injury (SCI) is reviewed. Conclusion. Determining appropriate aminoglycoside dosage in patients with SCI is ...

Meningitis is an inflammation of the fluid and three membranes (meninges) surrounding your brain and spinal cord. The symptoms of viral and bacterial meningitis can be similar in the beginning.

Apr. 15, 2025 — The smallest control system of vision in mammals has been mapped -- a discovery that opens entirely new insights into how our vision works and how it can be affected by ..

This is because pregnancy involves profound bodily changes, which can affect an individual’s spinal cord and nerves. As an older 2015 study explains, there are several different ways in which ...

The following is a summary of “Limited added value of systematic spinal cord MRI vs brain MRI alone to classify patients with MS as active or inactive during follow-up,” published in the April 2025 ...

Here, the authors use unsupervised learning to show that most excitatory neuron morphologies in the mouse visual cortex form a continuum, with notable exceptions in deeper layers.

He says that the differences in our brains that make us human are more likely to have arisen from large-scale changes than from subtle changes in neuron shape. "I don't think it's a very big part ...