Intra Operative NeuroPhysiological Monitoring- IONM

In the absence of lower motor potentials in ALS patients, bilateral upper limbs evoked potentials can be used to assess the motor functions..!. In this Article: Upper limb motor evoked potentials as outcome measure in progressive multiple sclerosis

New Book: Comments:: Interesting but ironic to confuse plasticity with that of degenerative changes....!!!.  Book Comments: I posted this recently on my LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6472238430750277632 Plasticity in the Nervous System in General or Brain in particular is mainly used to unravel the capacity of new growth such as neuritic or axonal growth after injury or other types of perturbations, furthermore it refers to new neurons formation such as in the case of Neurogenesis and also refers to behavioral recovery which is another form of neuroplasticity. Plasticity is the counteractive or reactive initiation of constructive growth process within the nervous system, either innate or induced. This process takes place in the nervous system due to an insult, injury or trauma, on the other hand, instead of growth (neuroplasticity) when the injury or trauma leads to pathological changes, it is referred into the field of degenerative changes or Neu

Deep Brain Stimulation Improves Paralyzed Rat's Gait By Emily Waltz Posted 23 Oct 2013 | 19:26 GMT Swiss researchers have enabled rats with severe spinal cord injuries to walk and swim by electrically stimulating a group of neurons located deep in the brain. The discovery may give researchers a new approach to treating severe spinal cord injury. The research, led by Lukas Bachmann at the Brain Research Institute at the University of Zurich, was published today in Science Translational Medicine. In most spinal cord injuries, some nerve fibers connecting the brain to the spinal cord below the injury site remain intact, even in severe cases in which a person is paralyzed. Bachmann and his colleagues found that by stimulating a key region of the midbrain called the mesencephalic locomotor region, or MLR, the remaining intact nerve fibers could be recruited to improve walking and swimming movements in spinal-cord injured rats.