Researchers led by Jean-Paul Noel at the University of Minnesota, United States, have decoupled intentions, actions and their effects by manipulating the brain-machine interface that allows a person ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a relatively rare but very serious disease of the nervous system. A cure is not yet ...

People’s Republic of China Jilin Engineering Research Center for Spine and Spinal Cord Injury, Changchun 130021, China Department of Orthopedics, the Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical ...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a disorder affecting the motor neurons—nerve cells that control voluntary muscle movement. These cells are located in the spinal cord. Because the muscles cannot ...

The scientists implanted four spinal cord injury patients with pluripotent stem cells to grow millions of new neural cells. Okano said two patients recovered "some" motor function, with one ...

A stem cell treatment helped improve the motor function of two out of four patients with a spinal cord injury in the first clinical study of its kind, Japanese scientists said. There is currently ...