A Somerset teenager who was forced to learn to walk again twice after doctors discovered tumours on his brain has is the face of Cancer ...

A Somerset teenager who was forced to learn to walk again not once - but twice - after doctors discovered tumours on his ...

A new drug-free, minimally invasive intervention targets the root cause of progressive loss of neural function in spinal ...

Motor neurons carry impulses away from the central nervous system (made up of the brain and spinal cord) and control the movement of the body. These neurons coordinate muscle activity. Motor neurons ...

aDivision of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada bDivision of Neurosurgery, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada ...

There are about 100 billion in the brain and 13.5 million in the spinal cord. The body’s neurons take up and send out electric and chemical signals to other neurons. 2. Neurons are made of three ...

You eat an olive and patiently listen to your date tell you about his job at a bank. Your brain is processing this scene, in part, by breaking it down into concepts. Bar. Date. Martini. Olive. Bank.

Sometimes, toxoplasma infection can establish itself in the brain and spinal cord, and cysts can live there for years. However, the immune system keeps the parasite in check for most of us—and no ...

A kind of umbilical cord between different quantum states can be found in some materials. Researchers at TU Wien have now shown that this "umbilical cord" is generic to many materials. It is a ...

For years, my family has vowed to cut the cord and quit cable. We rarely watch the hundreds of channels on our cable lineup. Except for the news, most of our television-watching is on streaming ...