Researchers from Florida Atlantic University's College of Engineering and Computer Science and collaborators are aiming to enable a more natural-feeling prosthetic hand interface by incorporating stretchable tactile sensors using liquid metal and machine learning.
The Mediterranean Diet has been reportedly named the best weight-loss diet. But can the diet – combined with a daily bout of exercise – also stave off dementia? The recently begun MedWalk Trial aims to find out.
Researchers at Boston Children's Hospital, working in collaboration with Pfizer, report a high-throughput target and drug discovery platform using motor neurons made from ALS patients.
Anxiety amplifies the physical signs of Parkinson’s disease, according to people who experience both conditions, researchers suggest, in a study published in PLOS ONE.
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Researchers report they have discovered a new form of muscular dystrophy related to changes in the JAG2 gene. The study was published in the American Journal of Human Genetics.
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Via the NIH-funded BrainGate2 project, scientists have developed a brain-computer interface (BCI) designed to help people with spinal cord injuries and neurological disorders such as ALS to communicate.
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Easterseals released its Easterseals Study on the Impact of COVID-19 on People with Disabilities. Conducted by Accenture, the report provides data on how deeply the pandemic has affected people with disabilities.
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Encompass Health Corp opens its call for therapy research grant applications, due July 30, 2021, at 5:00 pm ET.
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Results from a Phase 2 study conducted by Focus on Therapeutic Outcomes (FOTO), a Net Health company, provide key insights for payors and providers about the use of telerehabilitation services during COVID-19.
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A recent study has found abnormal reactions between the brain and gastrointestinal tract (gut-brain axis) in moderate to severe chronic TBI patients. These patients may not be absorbing nutrients properly, and treatments need to be developed to address these issues, researchers suggest.
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A report published in eLife describes a comprehensive roadmap of muscle aging in mice that scientists say could be used to find treatments that prevent decline in muscle mobility and function (aka, sarcopenia).
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Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network has received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grant to study the complex relationship between stroke, sleep and rehabilitation.
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A type of cell in the brain blood vessels could explain the origins and dynamics of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), according to a study, the results of which suggest a hitherto unknown connection between the nervous and vascular systems.
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With training, neural control of a powered prosthetic ankle can restore a wide range of abilities, including standing on very challenging surfaces and squatting, researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suggest, in Wearable Technologies.
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No pain means no gain when it comes to reaping exercise benefits for people with peripheral artery disease (PAD), reports a new Northwestern Medicine study, published in JAMA.
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Introducing a gene that plays a role in regenerating neurons of African clawed frog tadpoles into mice with spinal cord injury (SCI) led to a partial recovery of their lost motor functions and could contribute to the development of a new therapy for SCI, Nagoya University researchers suggest, in the journal iScience.
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Israeli-based start-up BrainQ reveals encouraging results of the Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) of its AI-powered therapeutic platform designed to help reduce disability after stroke.
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Social distancing not only helped slow the spread of COVID-19 — it also may have prevented the transmission of an outbreak of the rare polio-like syndrome acute flaccid myelitis (AFM), according to Princeton University researchers.
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