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Brain Stimulation Can Help Injured People Walk: Study
Scientists said Monday that electrically stimulating a particular region in the brain could help people with injured spinal cords walk more easily, with one patient describing how the technique allowed him to conquer his fear of stairs.
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Novel Brain-Computer Interface Improves Control of Prosthetic Hands With Thought Alone
A recent study by scientists at the German Primate Center has made significant strides in the development of brain-computer interfaces for controlling prosthetic hands. By training rhesus monkeys to use neural signals for hand posture control, the researchers have shifted focus from movement velocity to hand position, resulting in improved fine mot...
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Diagnosed With Rare Syndrome, Yogesh Kathuniya's Journey To Successive Paralympic Silver
Yogesh Kathuniya competes from a seated position in F-56, which includes athletes with amputations and spinal cord injuries.
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Elon Musk's Neuralink Switches Location of Incorporation From Delaware to Nevada
Elon Musk's brain-chip implant company, Neuralink, changed its location of incorporation from Delaware to Nevada. The development comes about a week after Musk said Tesla would hold a shareholder vote to transfer its state of incorporation to Texas from Delaware after a judge invalidated his $56 billion (roughly Rs. 4,64,880 crore) pay package.
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40 Human Skulls, Spinal Cords Found Decorated Around US Man's House, Says FBI
The authorities have linked the case with the nationwide Harvard morgue trafficking scheme.
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'Thought-Controlled' Implants Help Paralysed Man Walk Again
A paralysed man has regained the ability to walk smoothly using only his thoughts for the first time, researchers said on Wednesday, thanks to two implants that restored communication between brain and spinal cord.
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Baby Girl With 6-Centimetre Tail Born In Brazil
Spina bifida, a birth abnormality brought on by an improperly developing baby's spinal cord, was present in the girl at birth.
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Rishabh Pant Accident: Star Cricketer's Brain, Spinal Cord MRI Normal, Undergoes Plastic Surgery - Report
Rishabh Pant had a miraculous escape when his luxury car crashed into a road divider and caught fire after he dozed off at the wheel on the Delhi-Dehradun highway in the early hours of Friday
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Vacuum-Assisted Delivery For Maharashtra Woman With Spinal Cord Disorder
Doctors of a government hospital in Maharashtra's Jalna district carried out a vacuum-assisted delivery procedure to deliver a baby for a woman suffering from a spinal cord disorder.
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Four-Legged Robot Dog With Virtual Spinal Cord Learns to Walk in One Hour
In a bid to study how humans learn to walk from stumbling, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in Germany built a four-legged robot dog. They equipped the robot dog with an artificial spinal cord and observed that it learned to walk in just an hour.
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Food Delivery Service With A Difference: This Motorised Wheelchair Gives Wings To People With Disabilities
Chennai's spinal cord injured 37-year-old Ganesh Murugan is India's first wheelchair food delivery person, the wheelchair is designed by a start-up incubated at IIT Madras
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In Rare Order, Court Allows Woman To Terminate 35-Week Pregnancy
The Calcutta High Court on Thursday allowed a woman to terminate her pregnancy after 35 weeks, in a rare such permission, owing to defects in the spinal cord and other malformation of the foetus detected my a medical board.
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Paralysed Man Walks Again, Thanks To Revolutionary Spinal Cord Implant
In 2017, Michel Roccati was in a motorbike accident that left his lower body completely paralysed. In 2020, he walked again, thanks to a breakthrough new spinal cord implant.
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Elon Musk's Neuralink Raises Over $200 Million From Google Ventures, Others
Neuralink aims to implant wireless brain computer chips to help cure neurological conditions including Alzheimer's, dementia and spinal cord injuries and fuse humankind with artificial intelligence.
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World Multiple Sclerosis Day 2021: Know The Symptoms Of Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple Sclerosis is a disease which affects the central nervous system, spinal cord and optic nerves.
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Brain Stimulation Can Help Injured People Walk: Study
Scientists said Monday that electrically stimulating a particular region in the brain could help people with injured spinal cords walk more easily, with one patient describing how the technique allowed him to conquer his fear of stairs.
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Novel Brain-Computer Interface Improves Control of Prosthetic Hands With Thought Alone
A recent study by scientists at the German Primate Center has made significant strides in the development of brain-computer interfaces for controlling prosthetic hands. By training rhesus monkeys to use neural signals for hand posture control, the researchers have shifted focus from movement velocity to hand position, resulting in improved fine mot...
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Diagnosed With Rare Syndrome, Yogesh Kathuniya's Journey To Successive Paralympic Silver
Yogesh Kathuniya competes from a seated position in F-56, which includes athletes with amputations and spinal cord injuries.
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Elon Musk's Neuralink Switches Location of Incorporation From Delaware to Nevada
Elon Musk's brain-chip implant company, Neuralink, changed its location of incorporation from Delaware to Nevada. The development comes about a week after Musk said Tesla would hold a shareholder vote to transfer its state of incorporation to Texas from Delaware after a judge invalidated his $56 billion (roughly Rs. 4,64,880 crore) pay package.
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40 Human Skulls, Spinal Cords Found Decorated Around US Man's House, Says FBI
The authorities have linked the case with the nationwide Harvard morgue trafficking scheme.
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'Thought-Controlled' Implants Help Paralysed Man Walk Again
A paralysed man has regained the ability to walk smoothly using only his thoughts for the first time, researchers said on Wednesday, thanks to two implants that restored communication between brain and spinal cord.
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Baby Girl With 6-Centimetre Tail Born In Brazil
Spina bifida, a birth abnormality brought on by an improperly developing baby's spinal cord, was present in the girl at birth.
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Rishabh Pant Accident: Star Cricketer's Brain, Spinal Cord MRI Normal, Undergoes Plastic Surgery - Report
Rishabh Pant had a miraculous escape when his luxury car crashed into a road divider and caught fire after he dozed off at the wheel on the Delhi-Dehradun highway in the early hours of Friday
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Vacuum-Assisted Delivery For Maharashtra Woman With Spinal Cord Disorder
Doctors of a government hospital in Maharashtra's Jalna district carried out a vacuum-assisted delivery procedure to deliver a baby for a woman suffering from a spinal cord disorder.
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Four-Legged Robot Dog With Virtual Spinal Cord Learns to Walk in One Hour
In a bid to study how humans learn to walk from stumbling, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in Germany built a four-legged robot dog. They equipped the robot dog with an artificial spinal cord and observed that it learned to walk in just an hour.
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Food Delivery Service With A Difference: This Motorised Wheelchair Gives Wings To People With Disabilities
Chennai's spinal cord injured 37-year-old Ganesh Murugan is India's first wheelchair food delivery person, the wheelchair is designed by a start-up incubated at IIT Madras
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In Rare Order, Court Allows Woman To Terminate 35-Week Pregnancy
The Calcutta High Court on Thursday allowed a woman to terminate her pregnancy after 35 weeks, in a rare such permission, owing to defects in the spinal cord and other malformation of the foetus detected my a medical board.
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Paralysed Man Walks Again, Thanks To Revolutionary Spinal Cord Implant
In 2017, Michel Roccati was in a motorbike accident that left his lower body completely paralysed. In 2020, he walked again, thanks to a breakthrough new spinal cord implant.
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Elon Musk's Neuralink Raises Over $200 Million From Google Ventures, Others
Neuralink aims to implant wireless brain computer chips to help cure neurological conditions including Alzheimer's, dementia and spinal cord injuries and fuse humankind with artificial intelligence.
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World Multiple Sclerosis Day 2021: Know The Symptoms Of Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple Sclerosis is a disease which affects the central nervous system, spinal cord and optic nerves.
