Search Tag: spinal cord injury
2024 10 Nov
Spinal cord injury (SCI) diagnosis and treatment can be challenging due to the complexities of accurately identifying and measuring lesions, which vary in size, location and intensity across patients. Traditional manual segmentation methods are often time-consuming, variable across raters and impractical for large studies or clinical trials. Addressing...Read more
2016 08 Jan
Discontinuity of topographic maps in the brain — not signal reduction — reflects sensory impairment, according to new research from Hebrew University. The findings, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) , shed light on a longstanding mystery of a fundamental property of the brain. It has long been known...Read more
2014 08 Dec
A new chemical compound developed by a team of international scientists shows much potential in restoring function lost to spinal cord injury. The compound, which the team dubbed intracellular sigma peptide (ISP), allowed paralysed muscles to activate in more than 80 percent of the animals tested. The findings are published in the journal Nature ....Read more
2014 25 Aug
Researchers at Vanderbilt University's Institute of Imaging Science have achieved the first validated non-invasive measurement of neural signalling in the spinal cords of healthy human volunteers. This new imaging technology can play a role in helping patients to recover from spinal cord injuries and other disorders that affect spinal cord function,...Read more