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Newswatch 16's Kerry Kearns talked to a neurosurgeon at UPMC about the connection between the brain and spinal cord and when you should see a specialist. WNEP Wilkes-Barre/Scranton.

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A man paralyzed in 2011 has regained the ability to stand and walk with the help of implants placed in his brain and spinal cord. The patient, 40-year-old Gert-Jan Oskam of the Netherlands, ...

The spinal cord is harder to access and study than even the brain. The challenges posed by its mobility and anatomical structure have made understanding exactly how it functions difficult.

Study: Hypothalamic deep brain stimulation augments walking after spinal cord injury. Image Credit: crystal light / Shutterstock.com. A recent Nature Medicine study identifies neurons in the ...

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Research teams have created a versatile set of gene delivery systems that can reach different neural cell types in the human brain and spinal cord with exceptional accuracy. These delivery systems ...

As part of the world-class care at Barrow, the institute invited Ability 360 to campus to show patients a game of America's fastest-growing sport and how it can help many recover.

Over the course of 40 days, the cells within the organoid self-organized into structures that resembled the early stages of brain and spinal cord development in a human embryo.

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — The brain is undeniably the most complex part of the human body. "So the brain sends signals through the spinal cord and vice versa, and it affects the way that we move and ...