Scientists report results from a promising new approach to treat the rare neurodegenerative disorder. Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder set in motion before ...

Learning you have a life-changing condition is likely alarming no matter what. But if you have axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA ...

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 ...

aDivision of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada bDivision of Neurosurgery, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada ...

What was Saif's injury? The 'dural puncture with CSF leak' refers to an unintentional puncture of the dura mater, which is a membrane that encases the spinal cord and the cerebrospinal fluid or CSF.

Robust Segmentation and Labeling of Vertebrae, Intervertebral Discs, Spinal Cord, and Spinal Canal in MRI Images Using nnU-Net and Iterative Algorithm.

The classical scheme is that meninges are three layers of membranes surrounding the brain in the skull, the spinal cord in the spine, and the nerves at the lumbar level. The dura mater (outermost) ...

Most proximate to the brain is the collagen and basement membrane-rich pia matter that abuts the ... structure surrounding the brain and spinal cord with three structurally and cellularly distinct ...

A lumbar puncture is used to take a sample of the cerebrospinal fluid from the lower back. This fluid flows around the spinal cord and the brain, and clears waste products. Levels of certain proteins ...