People with MS who experience progression independent of relapse activity tend to have more damage to their brain's white ...

MRI features: In adult onset disease, there is typically white matter change and atrophy within the medulla oblongata and upper cervical spinal cord. There can be mild to moderate periventricular ...

A lab develops brain wave decoder that may help in spinal cord injury rehabilitation.

Researchers in Ismael Seáñez’s lab have developed a type of decoder to restore communication between the brain and the area below a spinal cord injury. Through experiments in their lab with 17 ...

In a first-of-its-kind surgery, a team led by a University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) neurosurgeon has successfully ...

But at 16, she she suffered a rare spinal cord stroke, leaving her paralyzed below the neck. The sudden change was devastating. “I actually walked into the emergency room,” she says.

When a person sustains an injury to the spinal cord, the normal communication between the brain and the spinal circuits below the injury are interrupted, resulting in paralysis. Because the brain is ...

This time, the surgeons faced a greater challenge. A second, smaller chordoma was strangling Flores’s spinal cord near the base of the skull. After much discussion, the medical team had decided ...

Patients implanted with a spinal cord simulation system reported less severe pain from baseline to follow up. Treatment also improved sensory nerve function and thermoregulation in extremities.

Multiple myeloma is a type of blood cancer that arises from abnormal or malignant plasma cells. Normally, a healthy plasma cell is found in bone marrow and is responsible for producing antibodies ...