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Posted by HMRI on September 19th, 2011, under Events & News, Media Releases
Neural Engineering researchers at Huntington Medical Research Institutes in Pasadena, California, have been chosen by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a better interface between the brain and prosthetic limbs. DARPA, the Department of Defense research and development office, has been faced with a continual challenge regarding prosthetics used by wounded war [...]
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Posted by HMRI on September 1st, 2011, under Events & News, Media Releases
Dr. Howard Kaufman, director of HMRI’s Colorectal Research Program, is one of the initial 16 doctors across the nation approved to perform the new InterStim® bowel control therapy, offered by Medtronic, Inc., of Minneapolis, MN. Dr. Kaufman was a co-investigator in a multinational multicenter clinical study into whether the InterStim Therapy for urinary incontinence, for [...]
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Posted by HMRI on May 25th, 2011, under Media Releases
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a four-year $1.4 million grant for migraine headache research to the Huntington Medical Research Institutes’ Molecular Neurology Laboratory, directed by Michael Harrington, M.B., ChB., FRCP. HMRI scientists have recruited volunteer study participants from the San Gabriel Valley for research aimed at understanding the biochemistry of migraine. They measure [...]
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Posted by HMRI on May 25th, 2011, under Media Releases
The National Institutes of Health awarded an $800,000 three-year research grant to Victor Pikov, Ph.D., of Huntington Medical Research Institutes’ Neural Engineering Department. Dr. Pikov is studying the problem of stroke-related incontinence. His project, “Functional Microstimulation of the Lumbosacral Spinal Cord,” explores using electrical stimulation to activate neurons in the spinal cord to restore bladder [...]
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Posted by HMRI on May 25th, 2011, under Media Releases
One of the most distressing and challenging forms of neural injury is stroke. Also commonly called “brain attack,” stroke affects the nervous system – one of the most important systems of the body, yet also the most vulnerable to injury and possessing the least capacity for recovery from the injury. Stroke is the third leading [...]
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Posted by HMRI on May 25th, 2011, under Media Releases
Development of electronic neurological implants by Huntington Medical Research Institutes (HMRI), a nonprofit biomedical research organization based in Pasadena, California, recently drew the attention of more than one hundred leaders of Asia’s semiconductor micro-fabrication industry. On March 19-20, 2009, industry representatives from Taiwan, Japan, and Korea convened in Hisinchu, Taiwan for the First International Conference [...]
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