Tag: paralysis

Using genetic engineering, researchers at UT Southwestern and Indiana University have reprogrammed scar-forming cells in mouse spinal cords to create new nerve cells, spurring recovery after spinal cord injury. The findings, published online today in Cell Stem Cell, could offer hope for the hundreds of thousands of people worldwide who suffer a spinal cord injury

If you’ve ever had sleep paralysis, you know how terrifying it can be. You wake up in the middle of the night in darkness and can’t move your arms or legs. Then you try to yell out, but you can’t speak. Some also report feeling a negative presence in the room that is trying to

Woman, 33, who fractured her FACE when she tripped and fell onto a restaurant DJ booth is now plagued by ‘seizures and paralysis’ Emjaye Bowman was treated in hospital but had complications for two years She suffered with blackouts, seizures and ‘numbness’ as doctors ran tests Functional neurological disorder is caused by problems in the

Recent research led by Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, finds that the brain generates speech sounds in a similar way to how it controls hand and arm movements. The finding brings closer the day when people who are paralyzed — such as individuals with “locked-in syndrome” — will be able to speak through a “brain-machine

A team of Russian scientists together with foreign colleagues, reports that the venom of the crab spider Heriaeus melloteei may be used as a basis for a treatment against hypokalemic periodic paralysis. This disease is caused by genetic mutation that leads to the occurrence of the so-called ω-currents, or leakage currents, via voltage-gated ion channels