The brain and spinal cord are your body’s central nervous system. The brain is the command center for your body, and the spinal cord is the pathway for messages sent by the brain to the body and from ...

A flying puck can cause serious damage to the brain and spine; Are neck guards the answer? Data from rugby provides a ...

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The process may someday be used in humans with spinal cord injuries to minimize or reverse the damage to nerve cells that results in paralysis, says Richard B. Borgens, professor of developmental ...

as opposed to the rest of your nerves, which branch off from the spinal cord. As most of the cranial nerves do, the ...

Newswatch 16's Kerry Kearns talked to a neurosurgeon at UPMC about the connection between the brain and spinal cord and when ...

Veterinary neurology is a field of veterinary medicine concerned with the anatomy and function of the brain, spinal cord, and nerves of animals. The nervous system controls and regulates the body’s ...

Evidence for this function first came from studies of the organ's anatomy and its nerves as well as the structure of the brainstem. Later, experiments conducted from a submersible confirmed that ...