The Klinik Berlin/Charit?University Hospital, Berlin, Germany, designs intelligent machines to intensify motor rehabilitation without overstressing therapists. We designed a gait trainer to intensify patient gait training and relieve the s...
We reviewed human-centered strategies that enable robots to behave in a patient-cooperative way and support motor-function assessment. We then applied those principles to treadmill gait training, for example, through the use of motion cont...
Deakin University is taking the global lead in improving the quality of life of children with cerebral palsy. Dr Elise Davis and Professor Elizabeth Waters from Deakin's School of Health and Social Development have developed a world-first...
1. VGLUT2 and the Thalamus Diederik Moechars, Matthew C. Weston, Sandra Leo, Zsuzsanna Callaerts-Vegh, Ilse Goris, Guy Daneels, A. Buist, M. Cik, P. van der Spek, Stefan Kass, Theo Meert, Rudi D'Hooge, Christian Rosenmund, and R. Mark Hamp...
Daily events are minted into memories in the hippocampus, one of the oldest parts of the brain. For long-term storage, scientists believe that memories move to the neocortex, or " bark," the gray matter covering the hippocampus. This tr...
Researchers at the University of Minnesota's Institute for Human Genetics have shown for the first time that the severity of an adult neurodegenerative disease is tied to how well the brain developed shortly after birth. The researchers us...
A vaccine for treating a recurrent cancer of the central nervous system that occurs primarily in the brain, known as glioma, has shown promising results in preliminary data from a clinical trial at UCSF Medical Center. Findings from the fi...
Childhood is a time when young minds receive a vast amount of information. Until now, it's been thought that children believe most of what they hear. New research sheds light on children's abilities to distinguish between fantasy and r...
An alliance to bring more clinical trials for Parkinson's disease to India will expedite evaluations of innovative treatments in the United States and beyond, says its organizer. "India is a prime place to do research and make a difference...
Celtic Pharmaceutical Holdings, L.P. (Celtic Pharma) and Neurobiological Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: NTII) announced today that they presented a poster at the 11th Annual Meeting of the Society For Neuro-Oncology (SNO) taking place in Orlan...
On July 13, 2009, the Journal of Cell Biology published a research article from t...
On October 10th, the Journal of Neuroscience published an article from ION entitl...