Map of brain-to-spinal cord nerve connections offers new hope for repairs
May 2 (UPI) -- A system that maps critical brain-to-spinal cord nerve connections offers hope for paralyzed people to regain movement in forelimbs, according to a study.Researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center are working on a process for specific repair strategies for patients that became paralyzed after an injury or disease caused damage to the central nervous system. The research was published this week in the journal Cell Reports."The map described in this study should allow us to explore which corticospinal-spinal interneuron connections are good targets for repair and restoration of voluntary movement," Dr. Yutaka Yoshida, lead investigator in the Division of Developmental Biology at the hospital, said in a press release.He said it will be several years before the...