Paralyzed People Could Have A Potential Cure With A Recent Scientific Discovery
Now walking could be possible after paralysis.
Nine individuals with chronic spinal cord injury received spatiotemporal epidural electrical stimulation (EES) of the lumbar spinal cord.
And during neurorehabilitation, They regained the ability to walk to a study published this week in Nature Neuroscience.
The team obtained images depicting nerve cell activity in the spinal cord of individuals while they were walking and found that after treatment, the spinal cords showed less activity than before.
This reduction was unexpected and reflects how specific subpopulations of neurons become essential for patients to walk again after a spinal cord injury.
Surprisingly, blocking the activity of cells in healthy mice did not affect their ability to walk. A single population of excitatory interneurons is necessary for walking recovery following spinal cord injury. Suggesting these cells become crucial for recovery after spinal cord injury.
Researchers also studied gene activation in mice with injured spinal cords and found a specific subpopulation of neurons that helps with recovery. Blocking the activity of cells in healthy mice did not affect their ability to…
