Areflexic, or flaccid, bladder and bowels occur when the spinal cord injury is low enough to damage the cauda equina and alpha motor neurons. It also occurs in all spinal cord injury patients during ...

Upper motor neurons generally begin in the brain’s motor cortex and interact with spinal interneurons to initiate the neural circuits that generate movement. Lower motor neurons originate in the ...

Understanding the way motor neurons change location as their function changes ... which are located in the ventrolateral zone (lower side) of the ventral horn. "This is an extremely rare case ...