They travel through your spinal cord and out to nerves that extend like wires throughout ... For instance, the somatic nervous system lets you control muscles and perceive touch, taste, smell ...

A Swiss research center is trying to use innovative technology to help restore bodily functions for paralyzed patients—and ...

Each one has openings that let nerves from your spinal cord pass through to other parts of the body. When these openings, called neural foramina, get narrow or blocked, they can press on your nerves.

Certain spinal cord lesions in people with MS show damage to nerve fibers despite having preserved myelin content, a possible ...

More than 30 million Americans experience lower back pain at any time. Experts estimate that up to 80% of the population will experience back pain during their lives, and about 65 million Americans ...

In most vertebrates, painful sensations are known to arise from the nervous system, which includes the brain, an intricate network of nerves and the spinal ... found that when they reactivated ...