Sentences with phrase «with brain and spinal cord»

Rainbow provides quality care and therapeutic rehabilitation services for individuals with brain and spinal cord injuries.

For over 30 years, I have utilized various aspects of biofeedback in clinical practice, including treating patients with common muscle imbalances, patients with brain and spinal cord injuries, professional athletes and others.

Manual biofeedback benefits patients with neuromuscular problems; from common local muscle imbalance to more serious disability associated with brain and spinal cord injury.

Thanks to refined surgical techniques and improved chemotherapy and radiation therapy, the majority of children with brain and spinal cord tumors — collectively known as central nervous system tumors — are now long - term survivors.

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Several large studies have also linked folic acid supplementation before and during pregnancy with decreased rates of neural - tube defects, which are serious and life - threatening defects of a baby's brain, spine, or spinal cord.

Experiments so far with neural dust motes have only involved the peripheral nervous system, which serves the limbs and organs, and not the central nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.

Additionally, several large studies have linked folic acid supplementation before and during pregnancy with decreased rates of neural - tube defects, serious and life - threatening birth defects of the baby's brain, spine, or spinal cord.

Between eighteen and thirty days of fetal development a nervous system can be recognized with the closure of the neural tube forming the spinal cord and the brain.

Neurosurgery to deal with brain, spinal column, spinal cord, and peripheral nerve damage may be needed within hours or days of birth.

It's been shown to lower the risk of having a baby with a neural tube defect like spina bifida, a serious condition in which the brain and spinal cord don't form normally.

The illness causes acute inflammation of the outer layers of the brain and spinal cord, with the most common symptoms being fever, headache and neck stiffness.

The child was taken to Women & Children's Hospital and diagnosed with a subdural hematoma, swelling on the brain and a spinal cord injuries, police said at the time.

The device, developed by composer and computer - music specialist Eduardo Miranda of the University of Plymouth, UK, working with computer scientists at the University of Essex, should eventually help people with severe physical disabilities, caused by brain or spinal - cord injuries, for example, to make music for recreational or therapeutic purposes.

The research group came up with bypassing the functioning brain and locomotion center with the computer to compensate lost pathways as a way to enable individuals with spinal cord injury to regain walking ability.

Gait disturbance in individuals with spinal cord injury is attributed to the interruption of neural pathways from brain to the spinal locomotor center, whereas neural circuits locate below and above the lesion maintain most of their functions.

«Every day, most of us take for granted that when we will to move, we can move any part of our body with precision and control in multiple directions and those with traumatic spinal cord injury or any other form of paralysis can not,» said Benjamin Walter, associate professor of Neurology at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, Clinical PI of the Cleveland BrainGate2 trial and medical director of the Deep Brain Stimulation Program at UH Cleveland Medical Center.

The updated guideline covers four neurologic disorders: spasticity in adults, which is muscle tightness that interferes with movement typically following a stroke, spinal cord or other neurologic injury; cervical dystonia, a disorder of the brain affecting neck muscle control that causes involuntary head tilt or neck movement; blepharospasm, a movement disorder that causes the eyes to close uncontrollably; and chronic and episodic migraine.

In the near future, we could use this information to allow cognitive control of neural prosthetics in patients with ALS or severe cervical spinal cord injury,» said Adam Sachs, neurosurgeon and associate scientist at The Ottawa Hospital and assistant professor at the University of Ottawa Brain and Mind Research Institute.

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.

Implantable neural prosthetic devices in the brain have been around for almost two decades, helping people living with limb loss and spinal cord injury become more independent.

A classic example is multiple sclerosis, where T lymphocytes, together with other inflammatory mediators, damage the protective myelin sheath that encases nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord.

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.

With no way for the cells between the brain stem and spinal cord to regenerate or reconnect, the injury often results in the permanent inability to empty the bladder.

For example, insects, bats and birds have all evolved wings that are similar in function but have completely different origins, eyes have emerged multiple times, and there is good evidence that nervous systems have also evolved several times, with some creatures possessing strange systems unlike the brains and spinal cords we are used to.

Researchers envision the e-dura being used in people with spinal cord injuries, as a brain implant and even to correct nerve damage in other parts of the body.

Children with tuberculosis meningitis — a brain and spinal cord infection that leads to disability and death — have a biological fingerprint that can be used to assess the severity of the condition, help decide the best course of treatment, and provide clues for novel treatments, scientists at the Francis Crick Institute, Imperial College London and the University of Cape Town reveal.

Functional loss of limb control in individuals with spinal cord injury or stroke can be caused by interruption of the neural pathways between brain and spinal cord, although the neural circuits located above and below the lesion remain functional.

Working primarily with mice, senior author and University of Virginia neuroscience professor Jonathan Kipnis and his group identified a hitherto undetected network of lymphatic vessels in the meninges — the membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord — that shuttle fluid and immune cells from the cerebrospinal fluid to the deep cervical lymph nodes in the neck.

The mouse model mimics aspects of the infection in humans, with high levels of the virus seen in the mouse brain and spinal cord, consistent with evidence showing that Zika causes neurological defects in human fetuses.

Infection with Bb led to many histopathologic findings in infected animals not treated with dexamethasone, such as leptomeningitis, vasculitis, focal inflammation in the brain and spinal cord, and necrotizing focal neurodegeneration and demyelination in the cervical spinal cord.

We are also dedicated not only to enabling control over computers or robotic assistive devices, but — for people with spinal cord injury or stroke — working toward the goal of reconnecting brain to limb, allowing the powerful intracortical signals to activate fully implanted functional electrical stimulation devices, and re-enabling intuitive movement of one's own arm and hand.»

Using what are called brain — machine interfaces (BMIs)-- essentially cyborg connections between prosthetic devices and the nervous system — researchers for the first time were able to show that the process of learning to use a BMI - controlled device can trigger significant neurological recovery in patients with chronic spinal cord injuries.

Immunologist Steven Schutzer of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey examined samples of cerebrospinal fluid, the clear liquid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord, from patients with each syndrome.

The researchers took immune cells isolated from paralyzed mice that specifically target and harm the brain and spinal cord, and treated them with either CBD or THC.

The study also demonstrates that cases born with abnormalities of the brain and spinal cord entail major social and financial burdens.

The newly fingered SNP lies in a gene for a protein called LINGO1 that is present only in the brain and spinal cord — a distribution consistent with a role in neurological disorders, says neurologist Dietrich Haubenberger of the Medical University of Vienna in Austria, one of the study's authors.

For example, it could be used to image neurons in living mice by combining the Raman scattering technique with existing methods in which tiny windows are implanted in the brains and spinal cords of laboratory animals.

The great New York Yankees first baseman was diagnosed with ALS in 1939 and died two years later from the progressive neuromuscular disorder, which attacks nerve cells that lead from the brain and the spinal cord to muscles throughout the body.

The ISP drug did not cause spinal cord axons known to control movements to cross the scar and reconnect with brain neurons above the injury site.

Researchers at Penn Medicine's Center for Studies of Addiction have now found that the drug baclofen, commonly used to prevent spasms in patients with spinal cord injuries and neurological disorders, can help block the impact of the brain's response to «unconscious» drug triggers well before conscious craving occurs.

The nerve cells of the central nervous system (CNS), which is composed of the spinal cord, the brain, and the retina, must be supplied with sufficient oxygen and nutrients through the blood vessel system during development and their subsequent function.

More severe long - term symptoms include severe headaches, heart palpitations or an irregular heartbeat, nerve pain, problems with short - term memory and inflammation of the brain and spinal cord.

Earlier this year, another team reported using a brain machine interface to allow a quadriplegic to move his finger and arms, but that system directly activated arm muscles with brain signals detected by implanted electrodes, bypassing the damaged spinal cord.

If the approach also works with human cells, it could eventually lead to cell therapies for diseases like inherited leukodystrophies — disorders of the brain's white matter — and multiple sclerosis, as well as spinal cord injuries.

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.

Fehlings suggests that brain - machine interfaces could one day be combined with several other treatment strategies — such as stem cells and drugs — to produce much greater overall benefit for people with damaged spinal cords.

He is working closely with a team of physicians at the UNM Cancer Center to conduct these trials: M. Omar Chohan, MD, a neurosurgeon who specializes in surgery for tumors of the brain and spinal cord; Gregory Gan, MD, PhD, a radiation oncologist who is an expert in the radiation therapy of brain tumors; and Yanis Boumber, MD, PhD, a newly recruited medical oncologist to the UNM Cancer Center who is an expert in cancers of the lung, brain and spinal cord, and early phase clinical trials.

Neuroscience is a field of study that deals with the structure, function, development, genetics, biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, and pathology of the nervous system, divided into the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord), and the peripheral nervous system, consisting of the myriad nerve pathways running throughout the body.

They found that microglia, the first and primary immune response cells in the brain and spinal cord, are essential for dealing with TDP -43-associated neuron death.

A fraction of the FTD patients show symptoms consistent with ALS, a disease in which the nerve cells that control the muscles, in the brain and spinal cord, are affected.