paralysis

The discovery could hold promise for paralyzed patients.

Scientists in the UK injected dogs with cells grown from the lining of their noses, which continually regenerates.

With careful training using a robotic harness, and a special chemical cocktail designed to stimulate brain cells, rats with spinal...

The most complex brain-computer interaction yet

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Electrical impulses sent to a paralyzed man’s spinal cord allow him to walk again, researchers say. Rob Summers, 25, can...

When Matthew Schiefer, a neural engineer at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, first managed to stimulate the leg...

For victims of strokes, serious face injuries, or degenerative muscular diseases, losing the ability to blink threatens to compound their...

Five years after a 1999 car crash left Eric Ramsey a victim of locked-in syndrome–essentially a conscious mind trapped inside...

In what can only be described as a harrowing instance of misdiagnosis, a Belgian man presumed comatose for 23 years...