The spinal cord is divided into 4 regions: cervical, thoracic ... There are two types of tracts: ascending and descending tracts. The nerve fibers forming the ascending tract arise from the ...

Topline results from the chronic cohort of an ongoing phase 1b/2a clinical trial of an investigational therapeutic peptide, NVG-291, found the novel treatment led to increased electrical connectivity ...

The white matter is composed of several tracts (pathways) that travel up and down the spinal cord. Sections of the spinal cord include the following. These white matter pathways carry motor ...

Across the whole cervical spinal cord, lesions were measured in white and gray matter; the dorsal column and lateral/ventral funiculi; and sensory and motor tracts. Lesions were also measured ...

Other types of injuries include lacerations (severing or tearing of some nerve fibres, such as damage caused by a gunshot wound), and central cord syndrome (specific damage to the corticospinal tracts ...

Cervical myelopathy is a condition that happens when the spinal cord in the neck is compressed or squeezed. There are many things that can cause this, but one of the most common is cervical ...

Only rarely, however, does such a hemangioma cause spinal-cord compression. Myelocompression by hemangioma of the cervical vertebral bodies is particularly unusual. Since early recognition and ...

Both participants had extensive damage to the cortico-spinal tract (CST), which resulted ... to span the dorsal roots of the spinal cord from the fourth cervical vertebra down to the first ...