An individual may become completely paralyzed because of any number of accidents that interfere with the functioning of the nerves in their body. People who have lost the ability to walk due to spinal ...

Machine learning decodes brain signals for paralysis recovery in just one second using sensors placed on scalp not inside ...

Like she hasevery day for the past six weeks, Kristina Andrews spent a recent Wednesday bedridden in her room at a Dunedin nursing and rehab center. On the empty bed opposite, boxes and Tupperware ...

As spinal cord injuries increasingly affect older adults, new research reveals a surprising pattern in recovery. The study shows that aging does not appear to slow the healing of nerves themselves, ...

After a spinal cord injury, cells in the brain and spinal cord change to cope with stress and repair tissue. A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Neuroscience, shows that this ...

Older age may be associated with poorer functional outcomes after spinal cord injury, but does not seem to affect neurologic recovery.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Cedars-Sinai team has found that support cells called astrocytes, located far from a spinal cord injury, release a protein that ...

James Wilson suffered a broken back and lost feeling from his stomach down when he was flung off his bike just two laps into ...

A brain cap and smart algorithms may one day help paralyzed patients turn thought into movement—no surgery required.