A 25-year-old male patient presented with foot drop indicative of a sciatic nerve injury following gluteal intramuscular (IM) injections. Blood tests and magnetic resonance imaging of his spine ...

The optic nerve transmits visual signals from the eye to the brain, where they are processed and interpreted as images. Light striking the retina triggers electrical signals that travel through the ...

Post-IM injection sciatic nerve injury can be avoided. Proper training and an anatomical understanding of the sciatic nerve course are essential. We recommend that the superolateral gluteal area ...

Sciatica occurs when the sciatic nerve in the body (which runs from the lower back to the feet) becomes irritated or inflamed. According to the NHS, around one in 20 people with lower back pain in the ...

Stanford Medicine investigators have replicated, in a lab dish, one of humans’ most prominent nervous pathways for sensing pain. This nerve circuit transmits sensations from the body’s skin to the ...

Listen to Story They worked out the cerebral architecture in a tissue sample The tissue sample was the size of a grain of sand It has over 200,000 cells including roughly 84,000 nerve cells ...

Department of Neurology, California Rehabilitation Institute, University of California, Los Angeles (M.-K.S., S.C.C.). Department of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Chonnam National University ...

HAMILTON: Where the signals register as pain - Pasca wanted to recreate this pathway in the lab. So his team created four different brain organoids, spherical clumps of human nerve cells that grow ...

So when you touch a hot stove, the nerve endings in your fingers react instantly. But the ouch comes a split-second later, when that information finally reaches your brain. Well, now, scientists have ...