Nerve transfer restores hand function, elbow extension in paralyzed patients
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Re: Nerve transfer restores hand function, elbow extension in paralyzed patients
#2How exactly does a nerve transfer work? I always imagined that certain control and reception signals would have their dedicated nerve connections, such that rewiring from a transplanted nerve would jumble up the wiring and give 'incorrect' results.
Re: Nerve transfer restores hand function, elbow extension in paralyzed patients
#3How exactly does a nerve transfer work? I always imagined that certain control and reception signals would have their dedicated nerve connections, such that rewiring from a transplanted nerve would jumble up the wiring and give 'incorrect' results.
A lot of stuff in biology is "stick it in sees if it works" kind of stuff anyway.
Who knows what will happen in 20 years.
Re: Nerve transfer restores hand function, elbow extension in paralyzed patients
#4How exactly does a nerve transfer work? I always imagined that certain control and reception signals would have their dedicated nerve connections, such that rewiring from a transplanted nerve would jumble up the wiring and give 'incorrect' results.
Even if the result is incorrect at first, the brain is adaptable and will simply remap to correct the bad wiring.
There are videos on youtube of people who put on googles that invert the view of the world upside down. After a few weeks/months of adaption, they can live in that condition as normal.
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Re: Nerve transfer restores hand function, elbow extension in paralyzed patients
#6How exactly does a nerve transfer work? I always imagined that certain control and reception signals would have their dedicated nerve connections, such that rewiring from a transplanted nerve would jumble up the wiring and give 'incorrect' results.
Even if the result is incorrect at first, the brain is adaptable and will simply remap to correct the bad wiring. There are videos on youtube of people who put on googles that invert the view of the world upside down. After a few weeks/months of adaption, they can live in that condition as normal.
I seem to have awareness that people have redirected the auditory and visual cortexes as an experiment and found that sight and hearing were recovered eventually?
Unfortunately I can't find a source to verify this so hoping someone with better knowledge could confirm that this is just how plastic the brain can be?
Re: Nerve transfer restores hand function, elbow extension in paralyzed patients
#7Great post
Re: Nerve transfer restores hand function, elbow extension in paralyzed patients
#8How exactly does a nerve transfer work? I always imagined that certain control and reception signals would have their dedicated nerve connections, such that rewiring from a transplanted nerve would jumble up the wiring and give 'incorrect' results.
A lot of stuff in biology is "stick it in sees if it works" kind of stuff anyway. Who knows what will happen in 20 years.
that's how most things reproduce ><
Re: Nerve transfer restores hand function, elbow extension in paralyzed patients
#9This is magical, science shall cure all ills.
Re: Nerve transfer restores hand function, elbow extension in paralyzed patients
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even if the result is incorrect at first, the brain is adaptable and will simply remap to correct the bad wiring. There are videos on youtube of people who put on googles that invert the view of the world upside down. After a few weeks/months of adaption, they can live in that condition as normal.
I seem to have awareness that people have redirected the auditory and visual cortexes as an experiment and found that sight and hearing were recovered eventually? Unfortunately I can't find a source to verify this so hoping someone with better knowledge could confirm that this is just how plastic the brain can be?
You may be thinking of this experiment on ferrets: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/1527604/