Hindlimb motor responses to unilateral brain injury: spinal cord encoding and left-right asymmetry

Biomechanical Responses to Experimental open Spinal Cord Injury

Brain Asymmetry: Switching from Left to Right

The relationship between structural and functional asymmetries in the brain remains unclear. A recent report describes a zebrafish mutant that provides us with some enticing clues about this relationship.

Brain motor system function after chronic, complete spinal cord injury.

Most therapies under development to restore motor function after spinal cord injury (SCI) assume intact brain motor functions. To examine this assumption, 12 patients with chronic, complete SCI and 12 controls underwent functional MRI during attempted, and during imagined, right foot movement, each at two force levels. In patients with SCI, many features of normal motor system function were pre...

Motor enrichment sustains hindlimb movement recovered after spinal cord injury and glial transplantation.

PURPOSE This study investigated whether enrichment improves hindlimb movement following complete spinal cord transection and transplantation of olfactory ensheathing glia (OEG), with or without a Schwann cell (SC) bridge. METHODS Motor activity was encouraged through provision of motor enrichment housing (MEH); a multi-level cage containing ramps, textured surfaces and rewards. Hindlimb joint...

O17: Inflammation in Brain and Spinal Cord

our goal in this paper is to describe and compare basic immunopathologic pattern of common demyelinating disorder, that is very important to choose the best treatment. The most common disorders are multiple sclerosis, neuromyelitis optica,Anti MOG associated disease,ADEM and autoimmune encephalitis. ADEM consists of ‘‘sleeves’’ of demyelination centered on small, engorge...