A man with advanced Parkinson's disease is now able to walk almost normally again thanks to electrodes implanted in his spinal cord, researchers said on Monday.
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The earliest brain changes due to Huntington's disease can be detected 24 years before clinical symptoms show, according to a new UCL-led study.
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Scientists have shown in mice that skin cells re-programmed into brain stem cells, transplanted into the central nervous system, help reduce inflammation and may be able to help repair damage caused by multiple sclerosis ...
Feb 22, 2018
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Adults living with spinal cord injuries have a near-80% increased risk of developing psychological conditions, such as depression and anxiety, compared to people without the traumatic injury, a new study shows. But chronic ...
Feb 8, 2022
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Many neurological conditions that involve involuntary muscle contractions have long been considered as diseases of the brain. However, both the brain and the spinal cord contain many nerve cells associated with movement.
Jun 6, 2023
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Neurons in the brain and spinal cord don't grow back after injury, unlike those in the rest of the body. Cut your finger, and you'll probably be back to using it in days or weeks; slice through your spinal cord, and you likely ...
Dec 10, 2018
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A team of biomedical researchers from Queen Mary University of London, Hebrew University and University College London has found evidence of an association between fibromyalgia-type symptoms and migration of neutrophils into ...
An experimental drug that blocks abnormal neural communication after spinal cord injury could one day be the key to improving quality of life by improving bladder function, new research suggests.
Jun 5, 2018
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Chronic muscle spasticity after nervous system defects like stroke, traumatic brain and spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis and painful low back pain affect more than 10% of the population, with a socioeconomic cost of ...
Oct 16, 2020
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Columbia scientists have discovered that one of the body's natural defenses against amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)—a cellular 'clean-up process' called autophagy—suppresses disease progression early on, but in later ...
Sep 11, 2017
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