Tag: Medical Research
Cleveland researchers develop technology to give spinal cord injury patients use of hands back
CLEVELAND — Ground-breaking, life-changing research is happening at MetroHealth Medical Center when it comes to spinal cord injuries and giving people function back.
Dr. Kim...
Nanoparticles promote functional healing following spinal cord injury
Novel approach also shows promise for autoimmune diseases
Paralyzing damage in spinal cord injury (SCI) is often caused by the zealous immune response to the...
This Neural Implant Accesses Your Brain Through the Jugular Vein
The brain-computer interface lets paralyzed people type using their thoughts.
Brain-Computer Interface
For the first time, doctors are preparing to test a brain-computer interface that can...
Wearable sensor may cut costs and improve access to biofeedback for people with incomplete...
A new electromyography biofeedback device that is wearable and connects to novel smartphone games may offer people with incomplete paraplegia a more affordable, self-controllable...
Sleep-Disordered Breathing: Imposing Challenges in Spinal Cord Injury
Patients with spinal cord injury or disease (SCI/D) are 3 to 4 times more likely to have sleep disordered breathing (SDB) than individuals in...
Created Line of Spinal Cord Neural Stem Cells Shows Diverse Promise
Derived from human pluripotent stem cells, these diverse cells advance disease modeling and may provide new, scalable source of replacement cells for spinal cord...
Researchers repair acute spinal cord injury in monkeys
Spinal cord injuries are among the most severe and difficult-to-treat medical conditions, usually resulting in permanent disability including loss of muscle function, sensation and...
Feinstein Institute study sheds light on combating infections tied to spinal cord injury
Dr. Ona E. Bloom, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research , associate professor has uncovered that white blood cell genes are present at different levels...
Spinal cord injury affects the heart
Spinal cord injury affects the heart, that's what research published in Experimental Physiology and carried out by researchers from University of British Columbia, Canada...
It’s Not a Rat’s Race for Human Stem Cells Grafted to Repair Spinal Cord...
Lengthy study finds that implanted neural stem cells grow slow and steady, and success needs to be measured accordingly
More than one-and-a-half years after...
