Tag: Spinal Cord Injury Research
10 of the most significant advances in spinal injury repair
Until World War II, people with spinal cord injuries had few treatment or rehabilitation options. And even today, spinal cord injuries can have catastrophic...
Spinal Cord Injury Whiteboard Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV39-mskzRM
New gene therapy hope for spinal injuries
A new gene therapy that may restore some movement function to people with recent spinal cord injuries is the focus for spinal cord injury...
Improving Life for People With Spinal Cord Injuries
“We are trying to improve someone’s quality of life. If someone can breathe without a ventilator, then you’ve increased their independence, and that, to...
Spinal cord rehabilitation and repair: an interview with Quentin Barraud
Spinal cord repair and rehabilitation is a difficult but important topic to research, can you please give a brief overview of research in this...
Brain implants allow paralysed monkeys to walk
Swiss researchers travel to China to conduct pioneering experiment.
For more than a decade, neuroscientist Grégoire Courtine has been flying every few months from his...
Graphene Nanoribbons May Help Heal Damaged Spinal Cords
James Tour, a chemist at Rice University, stated that a treatment procedure to heal damaged spinal cords by combining graphene nanoribbons produced with a...
Gene Behind Long Body Of Snake May Help Patients With Spinal Injuries
Snakes owe their long and slithery bodies to "junk DNA," large chunks of the reptile's genome that scientists once thought to be useless. The...
INSPIRE Laboratory
Our lab mission is to INSPIRE (integrate sensorimotor plasticity and interventions to promote recovery) persons with neurologic injury to regain function.
We are an interdisciplinary...
Paralyzed Veterans of America Announces New Partnership With the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation
Paralyzed Veterans of America (Paralyzed Veterans) announced April 11, 2016, its new partnership with the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation (Reeve Foundation). The organizations...
