Advances in biology and technology for spinal cord repair

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Registration Check in

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Welcome and Introduction

›9:20 (2h40)

Electrical and Magnetic stimulation to improve functional recovery after SCI.

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Innovative dynamic electrical stimulation facilitates spinal network activity and cortico-spinal connectivity
Giuliano Taccola (International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy)

›10:00 (40min)

Engineering human spinal cord repair: A translational approach in pigs.
Jorge E Collazos-Castro (Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos, Toledo, Spain).

›10:40 (40min)

Spinal cord injury: can we repair spinal cord non-invasively by using magnetic stimulation?
Nicolas Guérout (Rouen University, France):

›11:20 (40min)

Motor, Sensory, and Autonomic Function in Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury After the LION Procedure
Marc Possover (International Medical Center, Zurich)

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Lunch

›13:30 (2h)

Demystify and treat spasticity after SCI.

›13:30 (40min)

Non-invasive spinal cord stimulation in neurorehabilitation
Ursula Hofstötter (Medical University of Vienna, Austria).

›14:10 (40min)

Calpain as a gene therapy target to reduce motoneuronal hyperexcitability and spasticity after spinal cord injury
Nejada Dingu (Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, France

›14:50 (40min)

Early delivery and prolonged treatment with nimodipine prevents spasticity after spinal cord injury in mice
Carmelo Bellardita (University of Copenhagen, Danemark)

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Coffee Break

›16:00 (2h)

Exercise and Enriched environment benefits.

›16:00 (40min)

the axonal regenerative ability of dorsal root ganglia sensory neurons after spinal cord injury
Simone Di Giovanni (Imperial College of London, England)

›16:40 (40min)

Presynaptic inhibition is modulated in an activity-dependent manner after spinal cord injury
Guillaume Caron (Paris-Descartes University, France)

›17:20 (20min)

Demonstration by the Wandercraft society of their walking robotic exoskeleton

›17:40 (20min)

Demonstration of an orthosis prototype to measure spasticity
Frédéric BROCARD (Aix Marseille University, INT)