Researchers have identified a previously overlooked neural pathway that helps control human hand and arm movements. The ...

Researchers in Switzerland have helped a paralyzed man walk again more than a decade after he was injured. Gert-Jan Oskam was injured in a cycling accident in 2011 that damaged the spinal cord in his ...

The neuro-oncology team at Fred Hutch Cancer Center and UW Medicine has a wide breadth of expertise in both primary brain cancers and in brain and spinal cord metastases. At the Fred Hutch Brain and ...

The brain and spinal cord are your body’s central nervous system. The brain is the command center for your body, and the spinal cord is the pathway for messages sent by the brain to the body and from ...

A team of neuroscientists in Switzerland have helped a paralyzed man walk again 12 years after a severe motorcycle accident. Their secret? An experimental implant that helps facilitate central nervous ...

A 10-minute brain scan can predict the effectiveness of a risky spinal surgery to alleviate intractable pain. The result gives doctors a much-needed biomarker to discuss with patients considering ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Signals recorded by an EEG device could be routed to a spinal cord stimulator, allowing paralyzed patients to regain more precise ...

Brain and spinal cord cancers can grow in the central nervous system, which is known as a primary cancer. They can also travel from other parts of the body, like the lung or breast, and form deposits ...