Neurology Research

KEY FINDING: 75% of participants reported a moderate increase in spasticity during the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions.

KEY FINDING: BoNT-A significantly reduces spasticity and pain, and improves QoL in patients with MS, SCI, and TBI up to 3 months after injection.

KEY FINDING: Epidural spinal cord stimulation (eSCS) can reduce the elevation in blood pressure and prevent digital anorectal stimulation (DARS)-induced autonomic dysreflexia (AD) in individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI).

KEY FINDING: Intraspinal pressure can be measured safely and effectively at the site of injury using a subdural strain gauge pressure monitor.

KEY FINDING: SCI significantly reduced the spike threshold and increased the number of action potentials during 800 ms membrane depolarization in capsaicin-sensitive bladder afferent neurons.

KEY FINDING: The custom algorithm detected bladder contractions in real time, successfully inhibiting a total of 56 contractions across all four subjects.

KEY FINDING: A 63-year-old man with incomplete paraplegia developed RLS four years post spinal cord injury.

KEY FINDING: Epidural stimulation immediately reduces the complexity of muscle activity in SCI participants, bringing it closer to the complexity levels seen in healthy controls.

KEY FINDING: The proposed GIN-based model achieved a classification accuracy of 88.89% on an EEG-EMG synchronized dataset for push and pull movements.

KEY FINDING: Lower total N-acetyl-aspartate (tNAA) was found in the pons of chronic SCI participants compared to healthy controls.