14-09-16 Thoughts of the family tree may not be uppermost in the mind of a person suffering from a slipped disc, but those spinal discs provide a window into our evolutionary past. They are remnants of the first vertebrate skeleton, whose origins now appear...

13-07-05 The first ever human head transplant is now possible, a neurosurgeon has claimed. 一位神经外科医生表示，人类可能首次实现头颅移植。 Dr Sergio Canavero believes that the technology now exists that will allow surgeons to carry out the Frankenstein-styl...

13-04-16 Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have succeeded in transforming skin cells directly into oligodendrocyte（少突细胞） precursor cells, the cells that wrap nerve cells in the insulating myelin sheaths（髓鞘） that help nerve s...

12-06-25 Over 15 years ago, researchers linked a defect in a gene called survival motor neuron -- or SMN -- with the fatal disease spinal muscular atrophy（肌肉萎缩） . Because SMN had a role in assembling the intracellular（细胞内的） machinery that process...

11-09-29 A commonly used supplement（补充，附录） is likely to improve outcomes and recovery for individuals who sustain a spinal cord injury (SCI), according to research conducted by University of Kentucky neuroscientists. Sasha Rabchevsky, associate profes...

11-02-25 Patients who suffer from Neurologic（神经病学的） Post Treatment Lyme disease (nPTLS) and those with the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome report similar symptoms. However unique proteins discovered in spinal fluid can distinguish those two groups from one a...

10-06-10 Once damaged, nerves in the spinal cord（脊髓） normally cannot grow back and the only drug approved for treating these injuries does not enable nerve regrowth. Publishing online this week in the Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Acad...

09-09-22 Hopes that people with spinal injuries could one day regain leg movement have been raised by research in rats. 有脊髓损伤的人将来某一天可能恢复腿部动作的希望随着在白鼠身上的实验而被提升。 Spinal injuries can be very difficult to treat US, Russian an...