This week, a 16-year-old Toronto boy, whose bike accident left him with limited movement, will become the youngest in Ontario ...

These cells cause inflammation of the brain and spinal cord — mostly in the white matter, but also the gray matter. According to Reder, toxic chemicals produced by these cells strip the myelin ...

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.

Dura is the outermost layer of connective tissues that surrounds and protects the brain and spinal cord. While life expectancy in Singapore is one of the highest in the world, the nation’s ...

However, the spatiotemporal dynamics of spinal cord grey and white matter neurodegeneration above and below the injury is understudied. Methods We acquired longitudinal data from 13 traumatic and 3 ...

Measuring the amount of gray matter in the spinal cord could help doctors track spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) over time and see how well treatments are working, according to a study that found ...

Gray matter is an essential type of tissue in the brain and spinal cord that plays a key role in memory, emotions, movement and sensory perception, and makes up just less than half of the brain.

Grey matter is made up of nerve cell bodies and ... White matter disease damages the tissue that connects parts of your brain and spinal cord that help your nerves talk to one another.

The spinal cord has gray and white matter, just like the brain. The brain and the spinal cord contain the same essential materials, but organize them differently. In the brain, the gray matter ...

The deep, central area of the spinal cord is referred to as gray matter, and the portion that is located nearer to the outer edge of the spinal cord is referred to as white matter. A coating called ...

The spinal cord, like the brain, has gray matter (nerve cell bodies) that process sensations and control movements. It also contains white matter (axons), which are fibers connecting nerve cells ...