cranial and spinal nerves, autonomic ganglia, and plexuses). A complete inventory of the Drosophila visual system classifies about 53,000 neurons into 732 types. The shapes and connections of all ...

Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) refers to damage caused anywhere on the spinal cord and its cells, including nerve cells, often resulting from car accidents, sports mishaps, and other traumas. Despite new ...

The CNS includes the brain, spinal cord, and optic nerves. A misdirected inflammatory response damages nerve cells of a protective coating called myelin. Myelin coats the nerve fibers from the ...

Nerve samples from the distal brachial plexus were dissected after transcardial perfusion ... We did not use pharmacological nerve blocks to inhibit the effects of the spinal circuits. The acute EMG ...

Spinal cord compression can lead to loss of sensation, difficulty with motor function, and pain or discomfort. Myelopathy can be diagnosed with imaging studies, including a type called myelography, as ...

Neural foraminal stenosis is a common condition that can cause symptoms referred to as a pinched nerve. The neural foramen (spinal foramen) are small holes on the sides of the backbone that are ...

The long-awaited and much-anticipated sequel to Rob Reiner's classic 1984 'rockumentary' This Is Spinal Tap is set to open in US cinemas on September 12. The date was revealed as the first short ...

In their current study, which has been published in the journal eLife, the researchers investigated its effect on human nerve cells that they had cultivated from stem cells. The result ...

A six-neck guitar once played by Spinal Tap is being auctioned. As spotted by Guitar World, UK auctioneers Gardiner Houlgate are selling the six-neck behemoth “The Beast”, designed by Gary Hutchins.

Proper motor function depends on an intact nerve complex to conduct impulses between the central and peripheral nervous systems. Neurons, consisting of are incapable of undergoing mitosis after birth.

While any slight protrusion of a disc is classified as a herniation, the most problematic ones are larger and more prominent over the passageway of a spinal nerve (called the nerve “root”). Cervical ...

Medically reviewed by Jason DelCollo, DO Thumb numbness is a symptom often attributed to a "pinched nerve" of the hand, wrist ...