In the center of your body’s repair system are tiny cells with mighty power—pericytes. These small but active cells surround ...

Applying red-light therapy to a damaged spinal cord protects and regenerates nerve cells, leading to a return of motor and sensory function, according to new research. The treatment could expand ...

Each spinal nerve comprises motor and sensory nerve fibers. Receptors present in the skin transmit signals to the spinal cord via sensory nerve fibers, which enter the spinal cord via the dorsal root.

In 1999, when Jason Carmel, MD, Ph.D., was a second-year medical student at Columbia, his identical twin brother suffered a spinal cord injury, paralyzing him from the chest down and limiting use ...

Credit: Shutterstock and Canva Results of an early trial published this week in the journal Nature Medicine found that people with cervical spinal cord damage showed some improvements both in strength ...

Even in people with complete paralysis after spinal cord injury, some nerves fibers are preserved. A Columbia physician-scientist is developing a new way to salvage those fibers and restore movement.

Your spinal cord needs a steady blood supply to function properly. This helps it send nerve impulses to the rest of your body. The impulses are like signals or messages that help you with vital ...

Axons are the long, fragile, fibers that conduct impulses between nerve cells in the brain, spinal cord and limbs. “Getting the growth beyond the lesion is key. If we can get those axons to grow even ...

Clinical trial for treating spinal cord injury using olfactory cell nerve bridges A Phase I human clinical trial commencing to test the efficacy and safety of the transplantation of olfactory cell ...

In mice with spinal cord injury, Lin28 injection resulted in the growth of axons to more than three millimeters beyond the area of axon damage, while in animals with optic nerve injury, axons ...

Spinal cord stimulation is recommended for back pain when other treatments have failed. WebMD examines this procedure and its role in pain management.

Birthing is a delicate process suspended between hope and uncertainty. This moment calls for the medical personnel to be extra careful. Possible complications are not just limited to the mother; ...