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Central nervous system. Like your brain, your spinal cord is part of your central nervous system. Its main function is to relay information about what's happening inside and outside your body to ...

Nov. 18, 2022 — Damages to the central nervous system (CNS), for example in the case of spinal cord injury, can result in permanent loss of sensory and motor function. It is because the severed ...

Once dismissed as “junk,” a group of RNA molecules has been found to help regrow damaged nerves in mice in new research. The ...

Mar. 5, 2021 — Researchers have successfully reprogrammed a glial cell type in the central nervous system into new neurons to promote recovery after spinal cord injury -- revealing an untapped ...

Trying to restore bodily functions after spinal cord injuries 05:36. Anderson Cooper: This week on 60 Minutes, we're doing a story about efforts to help people who are paralyzed with severe spinal ...

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Primary central nervous system (CNS) vasculitis, also known as primary angiitis of the CNS, is a rare form of vasculitis that is limited to the brain and spinal cord and causes a variety of ...

Jocelyne Bloch: To regulate the blood pressure, you need your nervous system, too, that is also going through the spinal cord. Gregoire Courtine: With the spinal cord stimulation, there is a very ...