Lauren Casey was 15 and a tenor sax player in her Minnesota high school marching band when the pain in her hip and lower back became severe. It hurt when she walked and when she stood for hours at her ...

Background A 29-year-old male presented with fluctuating but progressive sensory disturbances comprising tingling and dysesthesia in his right leg. MRI of the brain showed white matter lesions ...

Spinal muscular atrophy affects all the body's muscles. For a long time, it was considered a disease caused solely by the loss of nerve cells in the spinal cord. Now, a research team at Leipzig ...

Intracortical microstimulation of the somatosensory cortex evokes tactile sensations, but those of individual electrodes are insufficient for functional tasks. We show that stimulating multiple ...

The brain-computer interface lets those with cervical spinal cord injuries or ALS control a computer with their thoughts. This year, Neuralink has quadrupled the number of patients. Emily is an ...

Epidural steroid injections can deliver an anti-inflammatory steroid into the epidural space around the spinal cord. It is unclear why this might cause pain before relief, but there are many theories, ...