Because spinal nerves exit the spine laterally, dermatomes associated with the torso and core are distributed horizontally. When viewed on a body map, they appear like stacked discs. The dermatome ...

Dermatomes are areas of skin, each of which is connected to a single spinal nerve. Together, these areas create a surface map of the body. Dysfunction or damage to a spinal nerve can trigger ...

Spinal nerves exist in 31 pairs ... person to person because the nerves may overlap in some areas. However, dermatome maps are a good guide to where they lie in most people.

Spinal nerves are also associated with dermatomes. A dermatome is a specific area of skin that’s served by a single spinal nerve. All but one of your spinal nerves transmits sensory information ...

May 2 (UPI) --A system that maps critical brain-to-spinal cord nerve connections offers hope for paralyzed people to regain movement in forelimbs, according to a study. Researchers at Cincinnati ...

Researchers trying to help people suffering from paralysis after a spinal cord ... was able to develop a map of corticospinal neurons that control forelimb and sensory nerve impulses.

High spinal cord injury ... modulated by activity of sympathetic nerves. Our objective was to determine whether the response to heat provocation in trunk dermatomes may provide a measure of ...