Neuroscience
Find relief for achy hands and wrists
Peripheral nerves connect your brain and spinal cord to the rest of your body. The peripheral nerves in your arms and hands allow you to move and to feel.
Jun 15, 2021
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News tagged with spinal cord injuries
Neuroscience
Researchers can predict future actions from human brain activity
(PhysOrg.com) -- Bringing the real world into the brain scanner, researchers at The University of Western Ontario from The Centre for Brain and Mind can now determine the action a person was planning, mere moments before ...
Jun 29, 2011
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Neuroscience
Therapeutic cocktail could restore motor skills after spinal cord injury, stroke
After spinal cord injury or stroke, axons originating in the brain's cortex and along the spinal cord become damaged, disrupting motor skills. Now, according to new findings published today in Neuron, a team of scientists ...
Aug 16, 2017
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Neuroscience
Master gene orchestrates regeneration of damaged peripheral nerves​
One of the big challenges with spinal cord injuries is that spinal cord neurons don't have the ability to regrow after an injury. That's why most spinal paralysis in patients is permanent.
Oct 30, 2015
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Zebrafish study reveals clues to healing spinal cord injuries
Fresh insights into how zebrafish repair their nerve connections could hold clues to new therapies for people with spinal cord injuries.
Jul 25, 2017
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Neuroscience
Robotically precise diagnostics and therapeutics for degenerative disc disorder
Lower back pain caused by degenerative disc disorder affects approximately 40% of the population over 40 and though many of us may never experience adverse effects from the disorder, it is the cause of chronic back pain for ...
Oct 30, 2020
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Medical research
Researchers restore walking ability after spinal cord injury in rats
Rats with spinal cord injuries and severe paralysis are now walking (and running) thanks to researchers at EPFL. Published in the June 1, 2012 issue of Science, the results show that a severed section of the spinal cord can ...
May 31, 2012
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Neuroscience
Stanford joins BrainGate team developing brain-computer interface to aid people with paralysis
(Medical Xpress) -- Stanford University researchers are enrolling participants in a pioneering study investigating the feasibility of people with paralysis using a technology that interfaces directly with the brain to control ...
Nov 14, 2011
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Neuroscience
In lab, researchers flip pain switch in spinal cord cells
Facing an urgent need for safer and more effective therapies for those suffering from debilitating pain in the midst of an opioid crisis, Saint Louis University researchers are on a mission to find a non-narcotic off-switch ...
May 9, 2019
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Neuroscience
Micro implants could restore standing and walking
When Vivian Mushahwar first applied to grad school, she wrote about her idea to fix paralysis by rewiring the spinal cord.
Dec 3, 2019
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