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  Mom's Sensitivity Helps Language Development in Children With Hearing Loss

  March 8, 2013 — Psychologists demonstrate the impact sensitive parenting has on language growth for children who receive cochlear ... > full story
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  Mind-Controlled Exoskeleton to Help Disabled People Walk Again

  March 7, 2013 — Every year thousands of people are paralyzed by a spinal cord injury. Many are young adults, facing the rest of their lives confined to a wheelchair. Although no medical cure currently exists, in the ... > full story
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  Human Brain Treats Prosthetic Devices as Part of the Body

  March 6, 2013 — People with spinal cord injuries show a strong association of wheelchairs as part of their body, not an extension of immobile limbs. The human brain can learn to treat relevant prosthetics as a ... > full story
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  New Clues to Causes of Peripheral Nerve Damage

  March 6, 2013 — Although peripheral neuropathies afflict some 20 million Americans, their underlying causes are not completely understood. Now, scientists have shown that damage to energy factories in Schwann cells, ... > full story
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  Putting HiFi Into Cochlear Implants

  March 5, 2013 — Scientists have developed a way to reprogram cochlear implants that dramatically improves the quality and clarity of users’ ... > full story
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  Better Understanding of Peripheral Neuropathy

  March 5, 2013 — Researchers have unlocked the key to a mechanism for peripheral neuropathy in people with multiple brain ... > full story
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  Amputee Phantom Pain Linked to Brain Retaining Picture of Missing Limb

  March 5, 2013 — Changes in the brain following amputation have been linked to pain arising from the missing limb, called "phantom pain," in a brain imaging study. Arm amputees experiencing the most phantom limb pain ... > full story
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  Functional Electrical Stimulation Cycling Promotes Recovery in Chronic Spinal Cord Injury

  March 4, 2013 — A new study finds that long-term lower extremity functional electrical stimulation cycling, as part of a rehabilitation regimen, is associated with substantial improvements in individuals with ... > full story
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  Eyes Work Without Connection to Brain: Ectopic Eyes Function Without Natural Connection to Brain

  February 27, 2013 — For the first time, scientists have shown that transplanted eyes located far outside the head in a vertebrate animal model can confer vision without a direct neural connection to the brain. ... > full story
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  Man Walks Again After Surgery to Reverse Muscle Paralysis

  February 27, 2013 — After four years of confinement to a wheelchair, Rick Constantine, 58, is now walking again after undergoing an unconventional surgery to restore the use of his ... > full story

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