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Electrical brain stimulation helps rats with spinal cord injuries walk

Posted on November 10, 2013December 25, 2013 by timbatchelder

Electric Brain Stimulation Helps Rats With Spinal Cord Injuries Walk | Popular Science
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Janet Stephens via Wikimedia Commons

Stimulating a set of neurons deep in the brain has allowed rats with severe spinal cord injuries to walk almost normally again, a group of Swiss researchers reports in Science…

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Drug may reduce chronic pain for spinal cord injuries (thealmagest.com)
Repaving Old Roads After Spinal Cord Injury (knowingneurons.com)

Finding next MS drug in common industrial chemical, lithium carbonate

Posted on November 2, 2013December 25, 2013 by timbatchelder

Unlikely Multiple Sclerosis Pill On Track To Become Blockbuster
by Scott Hensley, npr.org

There aren’t very many drugs that are also, essentially, industrial chemicals available in railroad-car volumes, pharmaceutical chemist Derek Lowe noted on his blog, In The Pipeline, this spring.

But there are a few. One is lithium…

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[WATCH]: Multiple Sclerosis Improve Walking with the GaitAid (findmedicalsolutions.com)
How ‘Sunshine Vitamin’ D May Be Helpful in Fighting Multiple Sclerosis (hopkinsmedicine.org)

Numerate applies big data to drug design

Posted on October 7, 2013December 24, 2013 by timbatchelder

Numerate Trains Its Drug Design Platform On Huntington’s Disease
Bernadette Tansey, xconomy.com

Bernadette TanseyThe path toward a breakthrough drug often starts with a new insight about the molecular cause of an illness, but only a few of these discoveries lead to new treatments. Steven Finkbeiner at the Gladstone Institutes in San…

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Drug reduces brain changes, motor deficits associated with Huntington’s disease (medicalxpress.com)
Research and Markets: Global Huntington’s Disease Pipeline Highlights – 2014 (biomedreports.com)

The linguistic analysis and prediction of Parkinson’s

Posted on December 19, 2012April 17, 2013 by timbatchelder

Max Little knows how to detect early symptoms of Parkinson’s. Just call him
By Madhumita Venkataramanan, wired.co.uk

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This article was taken from the December 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired’s articles in print before they’re posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing…

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