News tagged with rehabilitation procedure
Lottery game helps to assess brain damage following stroke
Patients recovering from stroke sometimes behave as if completely unaware of one half of the world: colliding with obstacles on their left, eating food only from the right side of their plate, or failing to dress their left ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 28, 2010 |
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Out of darkness, sight: How the brain learns to see
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cases of restored vision after a lifetime of blindness, though exceedingly rare, provide a unique opportunity to address several fundamental questions regarding brain function. After being ...
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Sep 17, 2009 |
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New 'electronic skin' patches monitor health wirelessly
Like the colorful temporary tattoos that children stick to their arms for fun, people may one day put thin "electronic skin" patches onto their arms to wirelessly diagnose health problems or deliver treatments. A scientis ...
Mar 27, 2012 |
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WWII shipwrecks could threaten US coast
On the evening of Feb. 2, 1942, an unarmed tanker with 66,000 barrels of crude oil on board was steaming in the Atlantic, about 90 miles off Ocean City, Md. Without warning, it was struck by German torpedoes. The attack set ...
Jul 17, 2011 |
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NSF leads interagency collaboration to develop advanced robotics
The National Science Foundation (NSF) will take the lead with three other federal government agencies to support the administration's National Robotics Initiative (NRI) and released a solicitation for proposals ...
Jun 28, 2011 |
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NZ zoo takes in penguin that mistook sand for snow
(AP) -- This is one homesick penguin, stranded on a New Zealand beach 2,000 miles from Antarctica and eating sand it mistook for snow.
Jun 24, 2011 |
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Giffords awake, communicates after skull surgery
(AP) -- A day after surgery to repair her skull, Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' doctor has dubbed her "gorgeous Gabby," encouraged by how she looks and is communicating after an operation considered a major ...
May 19, 2011 |
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UCLA's first hand transplant patient adapting well to new hand
Six-and-a-half weeks after receiving the first hand transplant in the western United States, Emily Fennell is becoming so accustomed to her new right hand that she barely remembers when she didn't have one.
Apr 21, 2011 |
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Anti-depressants boost brain cells after injury in early studies
Anti-depressants may help spur the creation and survival of new brain cells after brain injury, according to a study by neurosurgeons at the University of Rochester Medical Center.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 18, 2011 |
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Rare hand transplant surgery successfully performed at Emory University Hospital
Transplant and reconstructive surgeons from Emory University Hospital announced today at a news conference that they have successfully performed a rare complete hand transplant on 21-year-old Linda Lu, a college ...
Mar 28, 2011 |
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BrainGate neural interface system reaches 1,000-day performance milestone
Demonstrating an important milestone for the longevity and utility of implanted brain-computer interfaces, a woman with tetraplegia using the investigational BrainGate system continued to control a computer cursor accurately ...
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Mar 24, 2011 |
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Robotic arms: Rubbing elbows with robotics (w/ Video)
Brian Zenowich will sometimes spend his workdays doing a little arm-in-arm dancing. His dance partners manage to stay in step, duplicating his every move almost flawlessly. The "twist" here isn't the type ...
Mar 14, 2011 |
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