Not the foot itself, not the ground beneath it, but a sensation somewhere above the injury that her brain had learned to ...

Researchers at Brown University have demonstrated that targeted electrical stimulation of the spinal cord can restore both ...

Touch—the first sense to develop in the womb—is fundamental to our bodily experience and our everyday lives. Yet, as the least studied of the five senses, it remains somewhat mysterious at the ...

The spinal cord is delicate, since it is made up of nerves that can be damaged easily, which could affect multiple parts of the body. When injuries occur that damage the nerves in the spinal cord, ...

Spinal cord injury (SCI) causes structural damage to neural circuits, which in turn leads to sensory and motor dysfunction. Transplantation of neural precursor cells/stem cells provides a potential ...

January 27, 2009 — Geron Corp announced it has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for a phase 1 trial of GRNOPC1, a cell therapy derived from human embryonic stem cells (hESC), in ...

Orthostatic hypotension is a cardinal feature of multiple-system atrophy. The upright posture provokes syncopal episodes that prevent patients from standing and walking for more than brief periods. We ...