Wolfgang Jäger was in his 30s when a skiing accident left the young Austrian wheelchair-bound from a spinal cord injury. Fast ...

A spinal cord injury (SCI) disrupts communication between the brain and spinal cord, leading to partial or complete paralysis ...

Medical Watch Digest for Dec 2 Deep brain stimulation can help with spinal cord injuries A novel way to reverse paralysis.

Researchers have identified the lateral hypothalamus (LH) as a key brain region for walking recovery in spinal cord injury ...

In this clinical trial, the participants received deep brain stimulation (DBS) in a region of the brain called the lateral ...

Applying deep brain stimulation to a different region in the brain than has been used for other conditions improved the ...

Deep brain stimulation to the lateral hypothalamus has improved lower limb movements in two people with partial spinal cord ...

As hoped, zapping neurons in the brains of injured rats over the course of several weeks helped them, too, to regain the ...

The team from EPFL and Lausanne University Hospital revealed that the stimulation in the lateral hypothalamus part of the brain has helped the participant with spinal injury ...

In a world first, surgeons have used a technique called deep brain stimulation to "re-awaken" dormant nerve fibres in the ...

In 2006, Wolfgang Jäger was in his 30s when a skiing accident left the young Austrian wheelchair-bound from a spinal cord ...

Scientists have identified neurons in the lateral hypothalamus that can be targeted through deep brain stimulation to improve ...