Wolfgang Jäger was in his 30s when a skiing accident left the young Austrian wheelchair-bound from a spinal cord injury. Fast ...
Medical Watch Digest for Dec 2 Deep brain stimulation can help with spinal cord injuries A novel way to reverse paralysis.
In 2006, Wolfgang Jäger was in his 30s when a skiing accident left the young Austrian wheelchair-bound from a spinal cord ...
In this clinical trial, the participants received deep brain stimulation (DBS) in a region of the brain called the lateral ...
New therapies that are less intrusive but more lasting than current interventions promise to arrest and even reverse neurodegeneration.
One of the last patients treated by Mrs White was Patricia Hunter in September 2019. Her surgery led to a facial twitch, ...
Researchers have identified the lateral hypothalamus (LH) as a key brain region for walking recovery in spinal cord injury ...
Although there is no cure, there are ways to relieve the tremors, stiffness, depression, anxiety, and memory problems caused ...
Deep brain stimulation applied to the lateral hypothalamus "immediately augmented walking" in mice and rats and in the two humans, according to the report published in Nature Medicine.
In a world first, surgeons have used a technique called deep brain stimulation to "re-awaken" dormant nerve fibres in the ...
The surgeries were led by Dr Dhanunjaya Rao Ginjupally, neurosurgeon with international expertise in advanced DBS techniques ...
The Percept™ neurostimulators are equipped with sensing capabilities that help doctors provide tailored treatments for ...