Tag: Spinal Cord Injury Research
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...
New lab to help find spinal cord damage remedies
A spinal cord injury can cause lifelong paralysis — no regular treatment is available, although a researcher at the University of Wyoming is working...
Motivated by Personal Experience, Scientist Seeks Answers About Spinal Cord Injury
https://youtu.be/938-NOmZkso
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 15, 2016) — At the age of 19, Sasha Rabchevsky was a strong safety on the Hampden-Sydney College football team when...
UW center receives $16M to develop technology that helps paralyzed patients move again
Imagine a future when people who have been paralyzed can move their arms and legs again.
Researchers at the University of Washington aren’t just imagining...
The Year in Review: SCI Research Breakthroughs in 2015
As we cross the threshold into 2016, we are one step closer to our goal of finding a cure for paralysis.
Moving full speed ahead...
