The failure of axons in the central nervous system (CNS) to regenerate has been considered the main factor limiting recovery from spinal cord injury (SCI). Impressive gains in identification of growth-inhibitory molecules in the CNS led to expectations that their neutralization would lead to functional regeneration. However, results of therapeutic approaches based on this assumption have been m...

AIM To provide a rationale for a new method of neurostimulation - correction of the sympathetic nervous system based on the evolution of the electrical stimulation of the brain as a component of neurorehabilitation. MATERIAL AND METHODS Authors treated 16 patients with Korsakoff's (amnestic) psychosis using this method. RESULTS Positive results were obtained in all patients. A typical case ...

Making music is a powerful way of engaging a multisensory and motor network and inducing changes and linking brain regions within this network. These multimodal effects of music making together with music’s ability to tap into the emotion and reward system in the brain can be used to facilitate therapy and rehabilitation of neurological disorders. In this article, we review shortand long-term e...

1 Clinical Laboratory of Experimental Neurorehabilitation, Fondazione Santa Lucia, IRCCS, Via Ardeatina 306, 00179 Rome, Italy 2Medical, Clinical and Experimental Sciences Doctoral School, Department of Neuroscience: Science NPSRR, University of Padua, Via Giustiniani 5, 35128 Padua, Italy 3 Department of Neuroscience, Unit of Rehabilitation, University of Padua, Via Giustiniani 2, 35128 Padua,...

New research developments in the recovery of function following neurological trauma as well as basic and applied research relevant to music perception and production, seem to point to the suggestion that specific music therapy interventions that directly address the restoration of function as opposed to developing compensatory mechanisms, in certain circumstances, may now be a more appropriate ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the psychometric properties of the Northwick Park Dependency Scale (NPDS). DESIGN Review of existing literature and psychometric analysis in relation to other standardized measures of disability in a large neurorehabilitation cohort. SETTING A regional post-acute specialist inpatient neurorehabilitation unit in London, UK. PARTICIPANTS A total of 569 inpatients with c...

Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded from epileptic patients with electrodes chronically implanted in the medial temporal lobe (MTL) and other intracranial locations, and from monkeys with epidural, transcortical, and MTL electrodes. For both humans and monkeys, the eliciting events consisted of trains of auditory or visual stimuli in which a random 10-20% deviated in pitch or pattern ...

I t has been more than six decades since Gilbert Ryle,1 Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Oxford, coined “The Ghost in the Machine,” in his book The Concept of the Mind, as a way of criticizing what he saw as Descartes' absurd mind body dualism. Since then the nature of consciousness has been largely explored only from the assumption that it was an as yet not understood neurophy...

background: magnetic resonance imaging (mri) is the standard method for observing brain plaques and contrast material injection is necessary for demonstrating the active plaque.this study compared the rate of enhancement of plaques with gadovist and magnevist in relapse phase of ms. methods: in this double blind study, after neurological examination of 62 patients in the attack phase of ms, two...