Each year thousands of patients face life-long losses in sensation and motor function from spinal cord injury and related conditions in which axons are badly damaged or severed. New research …read more Source:: Science
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Seeing through a robot’s eyes helps those with profound motor impairments
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•An interface system that uses augmented reality technology could help individuals with profound motor impairments operate a humanoid robot to feed themselves and perform routine personal care tasks such as …read more Source:: Science
Technology and therapy help individuals with chronic spinal cord injuries take steps
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•Of four research participants living with traumatic, motor complete spinal cord injury, two are able to walk over ground with epidural stimulation following epidural stimulation paired with daily locomotor training. …read more Source:: Science
Tiny nanomachine successfully completes test drive
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•Scientists have used nanostructures to construct a tiny machine that constitutes a rotatory motor and can move in a specific direction. The researchers used circular structures from DNA. …read more Source:: Science
Advanced artificial limbs mapped in the brain
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•Scientists have used functional MRI to show how the brain re-maps motor and sensory pathways following targeted motor and sensory reinnervation (TMSR), a neuroprosthetic approach where residual limb nerves are …read more Source:: Science