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.

We have no privacy and share a bathroom. Three months ago, my son, 22, had a spinal cord injury and is now paraplegic. They are optimistic about his recovery, but it will take a long time.

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.

Estrogen and Progesterone Stimulate the Body to Make Opioids Apr. 3, 2025 — Female hormones can suppress pain by making immune cells near the spinal cord produce opioids, a new study has found.

This is an important study utilizing innovative CRISPR based approaches demonstrating the role of the KLF family of transcription factors in the post natal maturation of cortical projection neurons.

How do we know this? Let’s take a short tour through the White House. The venture capitalist David Sacks of Craft Ventures runs the White House’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology.

Hallucinations, cortical visual loss, advanced brain atrophy, and a normal CSF white blood cell count are tied to rapidly ...