The fourth in a series, this article explores the peripheral nervous system: the nerves that connect the central nervous system to the rest of the body. This is a Self-assessment article and comes ...

Results of their study appear online in Nature Neuroscience. "Until now, such robust nerve regeneration has been impossible in the spinal cord," said Steward, anatomy & neurobiology professor and ...

Feeling from your knee down is relayed to your brain by the tibial nerve. This nerve is also responsible for sending messages from your brain down to your lower leg. The tibial nerve stems from your ...

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Indiana University School of Medicine report that increasing energy supply within injured spinal cord nerves in mice could help promote ...

A stem cell gel developed by scientists can regenerate broken spinal cord nerves, research has shown. The gel is applied to the site of an injury. In rats with completely severed spinal cords, it ...