Spinal cord

The spinal cord is a bundle of nerves that descends through the bottom of the skull from the base of the brain (brainstem) and descends to the bottom of the spine, where it thins, and becomes the ca...

Cranial nerves

Neurology

Neurology is the branch of medicine concerned with nerves; both the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system. This includes strokes and disorders affecting the brain aswell as spinal...

Spinal Cord Tumors

A spinal cord tumor is a noncancerous (benign) or cancerous (malignant) growth in or around the spinal cord. 10 % originate from the cells within the spinal cord; these cause a fluid-filled cavity...

Intracranial and Spinal Tumors

Low Back Pain

Your back is made up of bones (the vertebrae,or spinal column, which protects your spinal cord) and muscles. The vertebrae are stacked like blocks; the spinal cord runs down the middle, and between th...

Texas Clinic Now Accepting Brachial Plexus Patients; Children and Adults

Houston, TX (PRWEB) December 26, 2012 Understanding what brachial plexus injury is, how it occurs, and how to treat it, are crucial factors one must know when battling this injury. The brachial ple...

Ultimate Neuropathy Support System Launched by Neuracel - Reaching New Heights in Herbal Medication for Peripheral Neuropathy

Boise, Idaho (PRWEB) May 19, 2013 The muscles in the human body are dependent on various nerves for their functionality and one of the biggest and most significant nervous systems in the body is th...

Steroid Injections to Treat Back Pain

Live long enough, and eventually you will have back pain. There are several major causes of back pain: muscle strain; fractures, tumors, or infections of the spine; and arthritis. Spinal stenosis occu...

Nerve Stimulation May Restore Hand Function After Spinal Injury

THURSDAY, Nov. 29 -- Noninvasive stimulation of nerves in the brain and wrist may temporarily improve hand movement in people with partial spinal cord injuries, an early study suggests. The study, pub...

Glial cells assist in the repair of injured nerves

Unlike the brain and spinal cord, the peripheral nervous system has an astonishing capacity for regeneration following injury. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine in Göt...

Brian's Breakthrough: Repairing Paralyzed Nerves

Your body is made up of 214 major nerves. If one of them dies or is torn apart, it can mean paralysis. Find out how doctor are replacing and repairing nerves, and getting amazing results. credit:...

Continuous spinal cord stimulation improves heart function

(European Society of Cardiology) Spinal cord stimulation improves heart function and could become a novel treatment option for heart failure, according to research presented at the ESC Congress 2012 t...

Anatomy and landmarks for the superior and middle cluneal nerves: application to posterior iliac crest harvest and entrapment syndromes.

Object To date, only scant descriptions of the cluneal nerves are available. As these nerves, and especially the superior group, may be encountered and injured during posterior iliac crest harvest for...

Direct activation of guinea pig vagal afferent neurons by FMRFamide.

Vagus nerve comprises two distinct kinds of nerves, nodose and jugular ganglionic nerves. We tested pharmacological difference between two vagal nerves in the responsiveness to FMRFamide. The response...

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging of symptomatic nerve root of patients with lumbar disk herniation.

INTRODUCTION: Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) can provide valuable structural information that may be useful for evaluating pathological changes of the lumbar nerve root. Diffusion-weighted magnetic...

Characterization of thromboxane A(2) receptor and TRPV1 mRNA expression in cultured sensory neurons.

Thromboxane A(2) (TxA(2)) is an arachidonic acid metabolite that stimulates platelet aggregation and vasoconstriction when released from platelets and other cell types during tissue trauma. More recen...

Deletion of the adenosine A(2A) receptor in mice enhances spinal cord neurochemical responses to an inflammatory nociceptive stimulus.

Knockout mice lacking the adenosine A(2A) receptor are less sensitive to nociceptive stimuli, and this may be due to the presence of pronociceptive A(2A) receptors on sensory nerves. In support of thi...