Dr. Nishimura said, «Our result suggests that in the early
stage after brain injury including spinal cord injury, it is important to motivate the patients for promoting functional recovery in rehabilitation.
Not exact matches
According to forensic pathologist Bennet Omalu of the University of Pittsburgh, an autopsy
after his death revealed that Waters»
brain had suffered so much damage from football
injuries that it resembled that of an 85 - year - old man with early
stage Alzheimer's disease.
Researchers at the University of Adelaide have discovered two potential treatments for traumatic
brain injury that are most effective when given at different
stages after the
injury has occurred.
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.