Spinal cord diseases are serious medical conditions that can cause paralysis, loss of sensation, and other disabilities. The most common spinal cord disease is cervical spondylosis (cervical spine degeneration), which is caused by wear and tear on your neck joints. Other common spinal cord diseases include spinal stenosis (narrowing of your spinal canal) and disc…
The brainstem is the part of the brain that connects the front part of the brain (cerebrum) to the spinal cord and the cerebellum. It is made of the midbrain, pons, and medulla. 1. What Does the Brainstem Do? The brainstem serves as a communication point between the body, the spinal cord, and the brain…
Vision information relayed from the eyes retinas is processed by the visual cortex which is a part of the occipital lobe found at the back of the brain. There are two parts of the visual cortex according to the two brain hemispheres: the right visual cortex and the left visual cortex. The right visual cortex…
They are several diseases where the body’s immune system attacks the cells of the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord): 1- What Is an Autoimmune Disease? An autoimmune disease is when the body develops an abnormal immune response against certain parts of the body leading to their destruction. An abnormal autoimmune response is associated…
