The International Symposium on Neural Regeneration Report

I think in all fairness to grammy, we should wait for future reports to be available before jumping to conclusions or discussing a point when there, is nothing to read yet bob.

Currently there is no treatment so this would be big news

But anyway

Exactly why perhaps she shouldn't make comments like that without proof

Let's treat everyone equal here

You're welcomed Paolo. It was my pleasure to attend to listen in and then write about some of things I saw and heard in the discussions. 


You're correct Paolo, CSP modulation doesn't cause regeneration but rather it's harnessing plasticity of the cord.  In two of the presentations given at the conference concerning neuroprosthetic technologies to restore locomotion and neuromodulation strategies for neuromuscular recovery after spinal cord injury, a large discussion took place during the question and answer period among the scientists. Is regeneration of the cortico really the holy grail that we have to wait for decades for? One scientist posed that question to the group because he's showing regeneration in his particular work with sprouting of fibers in the 5HT system and getting BBB scores of up to 18.5 out of 21 on acute animals. So, he posed the important question for the other regeneration scientists to really think about this since he's not detecting anything happening in the cortico with his work but rather in the raphe. The response of the scientists working specifically on neuroprosthetic and neuromodulations were asked which of the various spinal tracts may be important to regenerate for meaningful recovery to occur? Their choice was possibly going after the Reticulo-spinal and the Raphe-spinal. A scientist working on getting recovery of function via regeneration for chronic has told me he would vote for coeruleo-spinal and proprio-spinal, but that Vestibulo-spinal is important too. It appeared to me that Cortico (CST) came in dead last in this segment of the discussions taking place during the Q & A.  It really was a fascinating segment to observe!