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Research News
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The principles of neuroplasticity ("...the brain's ability to change ...") are at the heart of Locomotor Training, the activity-based rehabilitation intervention being done in the Reeve Foundation's NeuroRecovery Network. In this article, Dr. McCormack Read More
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Researchers from North Carolina State University have identified a gene that tells embryonic stem cells in the brain when to stop producing nerve cells called neurons. The research is a significant advance in understanding the development of the nervous Read More
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UPI reported this early this month:Substances produced by the human body may one day help prevent paralysis following a spinal cord injury, U.S. researchers said.
Dr. Samie Jaffrey, associate professor of pharmacology at Weill Cornell Medical College, Read More
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This is on Harvard Medical School's website. A little on the technical side, it addresses a very basic problem -- scars. Scars are a mixed blessing in spinal cord injuries—saving a victim’s life, but sealing his fate as a paraplegic. The scar forms a Read More
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Saw this in Science Daily today:The first human embryonic stem cell treatment approved by the FDA for
human testing has been shown to restore limb function in rats with neck
spinal cord injuries -- a finding that could expand the clinical trial
to Read More
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This was posted on ABC News last week:Now, in an unprecedented new study from the University of California, San Diego, published Wednesday in the journal Neuron, researchers say they were able to regenerate nerve cells up to 15 months after a spinal cord Read More
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There is a move to start holding companies that are offering unapproved stem cell "therapies" accountable. The Reeve Foundation's Knowledge Manager, Sam Maddox, takes a closer look. Read more.Read Nature.com's blog on the topic.Rob Read More
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This out of Harvard Medical School this week:Scars can serve as double-edged swords in spinal cord injuries—saving a victim's life, but sealing his or her fate as a paraplegic or quadriplegic. The scar forms a wall around the wound, preventing the injury Read More
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Technology is wonderful. This is a super therapy that is housed at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. For those service members with balance or gait impairments, or Traumatic Brain Injuries, the CAREN system might just well be a huge leap in the right Read More
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Here's a great interview with Francis Collins. He is the new head of the National Institutes of Health -- NIH. He has a lot of stimulus money to give out. What are you doing to guard against the NIH 'falling off a cliff' financially when the stimulus Read More
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The Reeve Foundation's North American Clinical Trials Network NOA Task Force met September 24th in Dallas, TX to continue what it began last May at a two-day workshop at Frazier Rehab Institute in Louisville, KY. NOA, which stands for Neurological Outcomes Read More
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NeuralStem, a Rockville, MD biotech, has received FDA approval to proceed with a small phase I safety study of its fetal neural stem cells in patients with ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease). This trial, originally placed on hold by the FDA last February, is Read More
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In a breakthrough study funded in part by the Reeve Foundation, scientists at UCLA and the University of Zurich tested a three-part intervention to promote recovery of function in paralyzed rats. The rats, whose spinal cords were completely transected, Read More
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The use of methylprednisolone sodium succinate (MPSS) in treating acute spinal cord injury has been a matter of debate in the international medical community since the National Acute Spinal Cord Injury studies were done back in the late 1980s and early Read More
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How do you turn on (or off) a nerve cell that is no longer connected to the brain? You might try a molecular "light" switch. This new piece of technology is being used by investigators at Case Western Reserve University, led by Dr. Jerry Silver, to help Read More
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