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Weill Cornell Medical College has received a $2.5 million grant from the New York State Spinal Cord Injury Research Board to investigate the impact of a ...

(11/24/2009) – New findings from an international team of researchers probing the nerve-insulating myelin sheath were bolstered by the work of Boston ...

... traumatic brain or spinal cord injury or multiple sclerosis. “It does not just cause paralysis at the neuromuscular junction (where the nerve ending ...

... restore function to damaged axons, slender fibers that extend from nerve cells and transmit electrical impulses in the spinal cord, the scientists said. ...

Neurological exam: To find out if there is pressure on the spinal nerves or spinal cord. Testing of the reflexes in the hands and feet and checking there is ...

CIPN involves damage to the peripheral nervous system (the system that transmits information between the brain and spinal cord to the rest of the body) ...

Montalvan served two tours of duty in Iraq, suffering wounds in a knife and hand grenade attack that left him with spinal cord damage, traumatic brain ...

Seven days after injury, rodents treated with GRNOPC1 did not have a cavity in the spinal cord, had more preserved nerve units, and more neurons with their ...

The researchers also observed enhanced axonal sprouting and recovery of nerve function at the injury site when the thermostabilized enzyme was delivered. ...

... this nerve pain. There are three types of peripheral nerves: motor, sensory and autonomic. Motor nerves send impulses from the brain and spinal cord to ...