Or they have spinal columns, or they don't have spinal columns.

Wait, poor spinal capacity.

People with spinal cord injuries,

In the spinal ward, that's normal.

The puncture wound was very deep and had to be examined for infection.

Finally, this last, the spinal in optimal

Reflexes in the spinal cord have been lost.

They moved me from intensive care to acute spinal.

I was lying on a thin, hard spinal bed.

Look closely for spinal lordosis, scoliosis, or paravertebral muscle spasm.

She had a spina bifida defect, a spinal cord abnormality.

It starts by killing the motor neurons in your spinal cord.

The central nervous system is... your brain and your spinal cord.

And, so, very quickly, Bob can just get one puncture, local anesthesia, and do this harvest as an outpatient.

The spinal cord had breaks. The neurons were crossing in every which way.

Their fever is down and the blood and spinal count is greatly improved.

There is the brain stem in between the cerebral cortex and the spinal cord.

Well, there wasn't much else to do in the spinal ward, so we did.

And then I remembered my friends that were still in the spinal ward, particularly Maria.

They picked as much broken bone as they could that had lodged in my spinal cord.

This was a device that a nurse uses when they're doing a spinal procedure in hospital.

laterally, vertically, up and down in the spinal cord and they start interacting with other adjacent cells.

Geron, just last year, started the first trial using human embryonic stem cells to treat spinal cord injuries.

In fact, the whole technology of sperm extraction for spinal cord injured males was invented by a veterinarian.

And each of us knew that when we left the spinal ward we would never be the same.

The headquarters for orgasm, along the spinal nerve, is something called the sacral nerve root, which is back here.

I was airlifted from the scene of the accident by a rescue helicopter to a large spinal unit in Sydney.

like people with spinal cord injuries or wounded soldiers, by having them control a prosthetic arm directly with their brain.

Hopefully you can appreciate the device there curving through the patient's body and removing the patient's bone marrow, instead of with 200 punctures, with just a single puncture under local anesthesia.

Heart disease, stroke, diabetes, spinal cord injury, muscular dystrophy, retinal eye diseases are any of these conditions relevant, personally, to you?

As we speak, the world's first human embryonic stem cell trial for spinal cord injury is currently underway following the USFDA approval.

And here is actually the spinal column and the whole torso encased in a sandstone block, because she was buried by a river.

And there were no superficial conversations as we shared our innermost thoughts, our fears, and our hopes for life after the spinal ward.

In the case of multiple sclerosis, the immune system attacks the insulating layers around the nerves in the brain and in the spinal chord.

And I was a long, long way from that spinal ward, and I knew right then that I was going to be a pilot.

Well the body works by starting a motor command in your brain, going down your spinal cord, out the nerves and to your periphery.

And it is a fact that you can trigger spinal reflexes in dead people a certain kind of dead person, a beating heart cadaver.

Janine, the operation was a success, and we've picked as much bone out of your spinal cord as we could, but the damage is permanent.

And even lying paralyzed in the spinal ward, there were moments of incredible depth and richness, of authenticity and connection that I had never experienced before.

Although their brains continue to produce those storms and code for movements, they cannot cross a barrier that was created by a lesion on the spinal cord.

These cells, called glial cells, were once thought to be unimportant structural elements of the spinal cord that did nothing more than hold all the important things together,

This is the front of the brain, the back of brain with the spinal cord hanging down, and this is how it would be positioned inside of my head.

I shared the ward with five other people, and the amazing thing is that because we were all lying paralyzed in a spinal ward, we didn't know what each other looked like.

We are talking here about, oftentimes, very young individuals with spinal cord injuries, that in the prime of their life 20s, 30s, 40s hit a wall and the wheelchair's the only option.

Susana was able to turn on the flight motor of what's the equivalent of the spinal cord of these flies and get some of the headless bodies to actually take off and fly away.