Tag: Spinal Cord Injury Research
ECU doctors receive grant to conduct research on spinal cord injuries
Two doctors at East Carolina University have been given funding from the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation for research that could help people living with...
Paralyzed rats regain use of hind legs with flexible spinal cord implant. Humans to...
Swiss scientists demonstrated a flexible ribbon-like implant that attaches itself to a paralyzed rat’s spinal cord, allowing the animal to walk again. The prosthetic,...
Research team identifies important control mechanisms for walking
Even after complete spinal paralysis, the human spinal cord is able to trigger activity in the leg muscles using electrical pulses from an implanted...
TED Video: Paralyzed Lab Rat Walks Again after New Spinal Cord Injury Treatment
It only takes a moment for an accident to sever or damage an individual’s spinal cord enough to result in paralysis. In this amazing...
‘Use it or lose it’ treatment for spinal injuries
WEST Australian researchers are taking part in an innovative 'use it or lose it' approach to treating spinal injuries, with the potential to revolutionise...
Improving the lives of veterans with spinal cord injury
Dr. William Bauman has worked tirelessly for many years at a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital in New York to produce a series...
Murray’s Problem
Chapter One - Scientist and Son
Murray Blackmore stood at the lectern and tried to take in the dark conference room, the men and women...
Scientists break early barrier to treating spinal cord injuries
http://youtu.be/FK_7gEk6n2c
NIH-funded scientists developed a promising new drug that may lead to spinal cord injury treatments.
Video courtesy of the NINDS and Silver lab, Case Western...
Laboratory Breakthrough Offers Promise for Spinal Cord Injury Patients to Breathe on Their Own...
Case Western Reserve Researcher Presents Findings that Could Free Patients from Ventilators – Even Years after Injury
Case Western Reserve researchers have developed a procedure...
Striking the cord: Optical control of motor functions
Grad student Chi Lu and colleagues demonstrate a highly flexible polymer probe for triggering spinal-cord neurons with light and simultaneously recording their activity.
MIT researchers...
