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Moving Memories

Transcranial Magnetic Stim for Brain Motor Control
Learn more about Dr. Blair Calancie's pioneering work with spinal cord injury patients. By practicing to walk, using a harness, their legs later appear to repeat the motion involuntarily.

Simulated Central Pattern Generators
Discover more about artificial neural networks and how they can simulate central pattern generators like those featured in "Moving Memories."

MIT Leg Laboratory
See what this lab at MIT is doing to study the dynamics of leg motion. Watch video footage of computer-animated creatures running.

 

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Born Again Nerves  
  I Might Walk  
  Moving Memories  
  Nerves of Steel  
  Mind Over Matter  
 
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