The largest part of the brain is the highly-evolved ... physical impact and helps maintain normal function. The brain and spinal cord together form the body’s command structure: the central ...

Multiple sclerosis causes lesions to the spinal cord and other parts of the central nervous ... The CNS includes the brain, spinal cord, and optic nerves. A misdirected inflammatory response ...

Aya Takeoka at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS ... Instead, a group of neurons in the bottom, ventral, part of the ...

Because the spinal cord transmits sensations to the brain ... More precisely, it can show which parts of the brain are active in response to a stimulus, and which regions are thus functionally ...

Humans and other animal species can experience many types of pain throughout the course of their lives, varying in intensity, ...

Female hormones can suppress pain by making immune cells near the spinal cord produce opioids, a new study has found. This stops pain signals before they get to the brain. The discovery could help ...

There are over 100 different types of brain tumours. Tumours can start in any part of the brain or spinal cord. They are usually named after the type of cell they develop from. Read about the ...

An AI-powered brain-computer interface (BCI) solution translates brain activity into synthesized speech at nearly real-time ...

For decades, scientists assumed that neural stem cells (NSCs) only occur in the brain and spinal cord. A new international ...

Courtine, and his colleague, the neurosurgeon Jocelyne Bloch, now felt confident that they could deploy the technologies to help patients with spinal cord injuries ... decode the brain’s ...