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Stim Tuneup (opens the original)
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Today we’re talking with Megan Gill and Ryan Solinsky, both researchers at the renowned Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. We discuss a common problem in spinal cord injury neuromodulation work: abandoned technology, or the lack of support that comes after receiving a neuromodulating device like an epidural stimulator. The Mayo Clinic aims to address this gap in care and Megan and Ryan discuss how this new clinical offering will work. Additionally, they talk about two new spinal cord injury cl
First Psilocybin/SCI Study (CureCast Episode 147) (opens the original)
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Today's episode features Dr. Jill Wecht who is a Research Health Scientist at the Bronx VA and Devon Colbert, a retired firefighter and Navy Veteran who lives with a cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) and is an advocate/participant in SCI research. A while back, Devon proposed the idea for a clinical trial using psilocybin to Dr. Wecht and her colleague Dr. Noam Harel at the Bronx VA. When we heard that they were moving forward with potentially the first psilocybin trial in spinal cord injury (a
Wanna Talk to the FDA? (CureCast Episode 146) (opens the original)
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Today, we are discussing Patient Focused Drug Development (PFDD) for SCI with Ian Burkhart. The PFDD is an authoritative process initiated and recognized by the Food and Drug Administration for identifying the treatment priorities of the people who live with certain diseases or conditions. Ian is an influential, lived-experience advocate in the SCI community. He is the past President of the North American Spinal Cord Injury Association (NASCIC) and is one of the principal organizers of the PFDD.
Rewiring Recovery (CureCast Episode 145) (opens the original)
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Many of our discussions about SCI recovery deal with developing research strategies or interventions that are on the horizon. Today, we are discussing an intervention that can restore function right now: nerve transfer. Nerve transfers can be thought of as animating dead wires by redirecting current from live wires. To explain what's actually happening, we’ve brought on Dr. Justin Brown, who has pioneered the field and our friend, Macy Lauren Ledet, a recipient of nerve transfer surgery. Justin
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