Eye Movements in the Critical Care Setting
New Textbook authored by FES Investigator, Aasef Shaikh, MD, PhD. Available here >>
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Experimental technology works to bring back sense of touch for those living with paralysis
Experimental research is working to improve the lives of people living with paralysis. Finding a way to bridge the severed connections between their brains and their limbs remains an urgent, but often elusive goal for researchers. Miles O’Brien reports on progress being made in restoring some people’s sense of touch. Watch full story >>
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Cerebella Ataxia, Brain Anatomy, and Deep Brain Stimulation Side Effects Discussed with Aasef Shaikh, MD, PhD
How can neurodegenerative diseases be better understood to find new therapeutic techniques? Researchers use tools like deep brain stimulation and virtual reality to make new leaps. Listen to full podcast >>
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Neuros Medical receives Breakthrough Device Designation from FDA
Neuros’ technology was invented by Drs. Kevin Kilgore and Niloy Bhadra of Case Western Reserve University. The company says it “delivers a high-frequency electrical signal to sensory nerves in the peripheral nervous system to block the pain signal.” Read full article >>
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This Brain-Controlled Robotic Arm Can Twist, Grasp—and Feel
NATHAN COPELAND WAS 18 years old when he was paralyzed by a car accident in 2004. He lost his ability to move and feel most of his body, although he does retain a bit of sensation in his wrists and a few fingers, and he has some movement in his shoulders. While in the hospital, he…
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Publication Marks Deliverable Milestone for VA Research Funding Support
The project, led by FES Investigator Svetlana Pundik, MS, MSc, started as a CTSC grant that lead to SPIRE award.
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Research is Better When People with SCI Help Design It
For far too many years, spinal cord injury researchers have failed to include disabled people in their studies as anything but subjects. Fortunately, that’s changing as more people with SCI/D participate in consumer advisory boards and other human-focused approaches. They are designing surveys, focusing on goals and giving key input before a solution that impacts them is…
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February 2021 cover of Movement Disorders, the official journal of the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society
FES Investigator, Aasef Shaikh, MD, PhD’s research, “Severity‐Dependent Effects of Parkinson’s Disease on Perception of Visual and Vestibular Heading” is featured on the February 2021 cover of Movement Disorders, the official journal of the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society. Read full article>>
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Case-Coulter Translational Research Partnership awards $1.1 million in funding and support for promising biomedical engineering university technologies
The Case-Coulter Translational Research Partnership (CCTRP) has announced more than $1.1 million in funding and other support for six biomedical technologies. FES Investigators, Dustin Tyler, the Kent H. Smith Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Emily Graczyk, research assistant professor of biomedical engineering, and Jennifer Sweet, professor of neurological surgery were among the awards for, “Minimally Invasive…
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MetroHealth’s Old Brooklyn Campus set to Expand Nationally Recognized Rehabilitation Center
Cleveland – The MetroHealth System will invest $9 million in its Old Brooklyn Campus, expanding a research program that draws patients from around the world who have suffered spinal injuries and strokes, while strengthening and improving a nationally recognized rehabilitation program.
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Your Brain, With a USB Port in It: Elon Musk’s Neuralink Vision Divides Experts
“We are very far from understanding what’s happening in the brain”
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The Brain Implants That Could Change Humanity
Jack Gallant never set out to create a mind-reading machine.
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Research Finds MyoPro® Delivers Meaningful Improvements in Motor Function for Brain Injury Patient
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Myomo, Inc. (NYSE American: MYO) (“Myomo” or the “Company”), a wearable medical robotics company that offers increased functionality for those suffering from neurological disorders and upper-limb paralysis, today announced that new published research measuring the benefits of the Company’s MyoPro myoelectric orthosis found “Despite long-standing traumatic brain injury, meaningful improvements in motor function were observed.”
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Nerve stimulation helps manage pain without opioids
NIBIB’s HEAL grantees develop a new type of injectable electrode for neuromodulation therapy
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Neuroscientists Think They’ve Found a Previously Unknown Form of Neural Communication
Scientists think they’ve identified a previously unknown form of neural communication that self-propagates across brain tissue, and can leap wirelessly from neurons in one section of brain tissue to another – even if they’ve been surgically severed.
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Researcher Michael Fu awarded NSF CAREER Award
Case Western Reserve University assistant professor seeks to improve effects of neuromuscular electrical stimulation by measuring unknown role of human effort
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American Medicine Today: ep145 – Dr. Robert Kirsch – FES Center Brain Interfaces
Dr. Robert Kirsch Discusses FES Center Brain Interfaces
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Restoring Touch for Amputees Could Spur Greater Human-Machine Fusions
Dustin Tyler‘s research on the neural interface between man and machine plays an integral part in the upcoming ReHAB trial and push toward the Avatar XPrize.
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Spinal cord injury patients can imagine resuming many activities because of new technologies
Brain-computer interfaces today are about where the personal computer was in the early 1980s, said A. Bolu Ajiboye, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. In the not-too-distant future, he said, “they’re going to get exponentially better.”
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Balance Disorder Expert Works to Fill Growing Medical Need for Veterans
CLEVELAND — Aasef Shaikh, MD, PhD, grew up in India as the son of two ENT surgeons, which he credits for his early interest in understanding the system that helps humans keep their balance. After finishing medical school, he immigrated to the United States to pursue a PhD in neuroscience, where his fascination with human balance only grew.
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The real-life bionic people: Cleveland FES Center uses technology to help people with paralysis
In 2002, Maria Sutter was living in New York City, working for a SoHo architecture firm, and starting to bicycle around the city as part of her active lifestyle. “It was pretty commonplace for me to bike from April to October,” she says. “I’d bike between 40 and 80 miles.”
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New technology helps man find freedom despite paralysis
The Cleveland VA, Case Western Reserve and University Hospitals collaborated for a documentary that showcases the journey of brain interface technology
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Seeking human connections across time and space
Case Western Reserve research team from new Human Fusions institute aims for $10 million Avatar XPrize competition; winner will best ‘transport a human’s sense, actions and presence’ to another place
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