In a new study published in Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, researchers found that inosine, a naturally occurring purine nucleoside that is released by cells in response to metabolic stress, can help to restore motor
control after brain injury.
Not exact matches
Eight people who have spent years paralyzed from spinal cord
injuries have regained partial sensation and muscle
control in their lower limbs
after training with
brain -
controlled robotics, according to a study published Aug. 11 in Scientific Reports.
Researchers from the University of Houston have shown for the first time that the use of a
brain - computer interface augmented with a virtual walking avatar can
control gait, suggesting the protocol may help patients recover the ability to walk
after stroke, some spinal cord
injuries and certain other gait disabilities.
We showed that you can restore intuitive,
brain -
controlled walking
after a complete spinal cord
injury.
To test whether the CAP treatment reduced
brain damage
after trauma, they compared
control mice with a real
brain injury that were given the CAP treatment against similar mice that were given the saline
control.
Here, the research team led by Associate Professor Yukio Nishimura, National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS), Natural Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS), and Masahiro Sawada, a former graduate student of Kyoto University, and Dr. Hirotaka Onoe, a team leader at RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies found that the nucleus accumbens, that
control motivation in the
brain, activates the activity of the motor cortex of the
brain, and then promotes recovery of motor function during the early stage of recovery
after spinal cord
injury.
Twenty - four hours
after the injection, the researchers saw large numbers of immune system white blood cells in tissue samples of the rodent
brains near the site of
injury of those mice injected with the cytokine IL - 1b, but not in the
brain tissue of the
control group of mice.
He and colleagues reveal that eight Brazilians paralyzed because of spinal cord
injuries regained some small but significant sensation and muscle
control in their lower limbs
after many months of training with the robotic exoskeleton, and by a virtual reality avatar also
controlled by
brain signals.
Specifically, the area of the
brain that
controls emotion — the amygdala — is larger than normal in those who develop PTSD
after a
brain injury, researchers said.
That makes it all the more extraordinary that it spent years supporting a woman who surreptitiously married her ex-boyfriend
after he suffered a catastrophic
brain injury to gain
control of his assets.
Community based rehabilitation
after severe traumatic
brain injury: A randomised
controlled trial