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...my students that since they dont habitually chop a cord of wood before class, they should put weights on their cell phones." Digital image available by calling 874-2116....Researchers demonstrate direct, real-time brain control of cursor
... technology may help individuals who have a spinal cord injury, Lou Gehrig's disease or muscular dystrophy, the researchers said. The researchers hope to apply the technology to restore some movement control in paralyzed patients. That step would entail seeking approval from the Food and Drug Administrati...Second patient with multiple sclerosis undergoes groundbreaking surgery at Yale
... to repair myelin, the protective brain and spinal cord sheath that is destroyed by the disease, Yale rese...y repair the damaged cells in the brain and spinal cord that result in neurologic disability in patients with multiple sclerosis and other disorders of myel...University of Pittsburgh researchers use botox to treat overactive bladder
...dysfunctions, including multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, stroke, overactive bladder, and interstitial cystitis (IC). Each experienced involuntary contractions of the bladder muscle, which either caused incontinence typified by either uncontrolled voiding of urine or the inability to completely empt...Peptide promotes new growth in injured spinal cords
...unctional deficits resulting from brain and spinal cord injuries and caused by trauma and stroke, or broug...ch molecules block axon regeneration in the spinal cord and shows that a peptide can promote new growth. Axons are the telephone lines of the nervous system...Inert gas may help stop damaged nerve cells from dying
...g illnesses, such as strokes, and brain and spinal cord injuries. Professor Nick Franks, a biophysicist from Imperial College London had been investigating possible molecular targets which could be responsible for the action of different anaesthetics. In one experiment, he and his colleagues had found t...Cord blood cells improve rats' neurological recovery from brain injury, new study finds
...travenous injections of cells from human umbilical cord blood improved the neurological and motor function...oring the therapeutic potential of human umbilical cord blood (HUCB) cells as an alternative to embryonic stem cells. While studies of cellular therapies co......either a defined antigenic peptide or whole spinal cord homogenate normally initiate inflammatory and cytolytic responses in the CNS. While Copolymer 1 reduced the incidence of this disease and delayed its onset in most cases, several of the novel copolymers prevented it entirely. Given the precedent of C...Data reveals Lilly's PKC inhibitor improved symptomatic diabetic peripheral neuropathy
...opathy affects nerves outside the brain and spinal cord - primarily in the arms, legs, hands and feet - and can lead to amputations of feet and legs in people with diabetes. Sensory symptoms include numbness, prickling, aching pain, burning pain, lancinating pain or allodynia (pain resulting from a non-no...New gene therapy protocol: First successful treatment for 'bubble babies'
...er, Tasmin, survived after receiving an allogeneic cord blood transplant from a younger brother. After the...first child died, Hadassah doctors froze umbilical cord blood cells from each successive birth for possible treatment of subsequent siblings. In the early ...Drug developed at Duke appears effective in treating respiratory failure in newborns
... by the mother and delivered through the umbilical cord to be pumped directly throughout the fetus's body, bypassing the lungs. At birth, when the baby begins breathing air for the first time, this passage closes naturally, forcing the baby's heart to pump blood to the lungs to pick oxygen. However, const...Journal of Rehabilitation R&D releases latest issue
...s/pubs.htm . Life satisfaction following spinal cord and traumatic brain injury: A comparative study ... life satisfaction between individuals with spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury. Functional disability was the only common predictor of life satis......tions for successful stem cell delivery and spinal cord repair. Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert, Ph.D., assistant ...lly responsible materials. Stem cells for spinal cord repair She also is one of very few researchers looking into matrixes for spinal cord damage, such ...Medical physicist treats spinal tumors faster with new procedure
...ich is sensitive to radiation." Because the spinal cord is so vulnerable, current spinal tumor treatments ...iple lower does of radiation to protect the spinal cord while treating the tumor. To treat the tumor more effectively, the researchers use "intensity modula...Lipid abnormalities linked to Lou Gehrigs disease
... when specific nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that control voluntary movement gradually degenera..., multi-step investigation. After comparing spinal cord tissue extracted from people who had ALS with those who didn't, the investigators discovered that le...Cell transplants look promising for stroke recovery
...se in treating stroke, Parkinson's disease, spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury." For the study, bone marrow cells were taken from three healthy human donors. Strokes were then induced in the rats and they were given the cells intravenously one day after the stroke. Other groups treated with fib...Neural stem cells improve motor function in brain injuries
...ngton's disease, ischemic brain injury, and spinal cord injury. While McIntosh is impressed with the results of NSC transplants in mice, similar trials for humans are not expected in the near future....Other highlights in the October 2 issue of JNCI
...s to the bone, causing pain, fractures, and spinal cord compression. In the October 2 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute , Fred Saad, M.D., of Notre Dame Hospital of the University of Montreal, and his colleagues show in a randomized double-blind study that patients given the biphospho...Tiny nerves from the ribs may restore leg movement in spinal cord injury
Irvine, Calif. -- Paralysis from spinal cord injury was significantly reversed by adding tiny n...d, perhaps leading to better treatments for spinal cord injury. The research is part of a wave of studies challenging the conventional wisdom that severed n...Children's Hospital Boston releases results at the American Academy of Pediatrics Annual Meeting
...that cells obtained from amniotic fluid, umbilical cord blood and the placenta during pregnancy can be eng...earchers also report successfully using umbilical cord blood samples for the first time to engineer fetal cartilage tissue in sheep. Until recently, invas...