Researchers at Brown University have demonstrated that targeted electrical stimulation of the spinal cord can restore both ...

Not the foot itself, not the ground beneath it, but a sensation somewhere above the injury that her brain had learned to ...

The effects of spinal cord injuries are complex and multifaceted. People lose not only the ability to control the movement of ...

Automatic personalization of electrode placement for transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation can take it to the next level.

A paradigm shift in the way we treat spinal injuries is now in sight, with the world's first regenerative cell therapy being granted approval for a registrational Phase I clinical trial. It's a ...

Precision Neuroscience’s brain-computer interface—a wireless device that aims to restore function to people with paralysis—is getting a boost from SCI Ventures. The fund is backed by the Christopher & ...

Touch—the first sense to develop in the womb—is fundamental to our bodily experience and our everyday lives. Yet, as the least studied of the five senses, it remains somewhat mysterious at the ...

Researchers have built a realistic human mini spinal cord in the lab and used it to simulate traumatic injury. The model reproduced key damage seen in real spinal cord injuries, including inflammation ...

In new results from a clinical trial, researchers show that electrical stimulation of the spinal cord can restore the muscle control and sensory feedback required for coordinated walking movements.