Neuroplasticity

Second Skin “Bio-Suit” for Cerebral Palsy?

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Dava Newman is professor of aeronautics and astronautics and engineering systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She has been working to develop a new type of space suit.  Currently space suits are like balloons.  They are filled with pressurized gas to provide the astronaut with both oxygen and also positive pressure to counter … Read more

Self-Motivation Key to Neural Regeneration

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Self motivation key to brain recovery

Some extremely important work is being done by Grégoire Courtine, a neuroscientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne. His group has achieved the very important milestone of being able to rehabilitate a rat to walk again after causing hind leg paralysis by near complete severing of the spine. This type of injury is … Read more