Grégoire Courtine: The paralyzed rat that walked
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- Опубликовано: 5 ноя 2013
- A spinal cord injury can sever the communication between your brain and your body, leading to paralysis. Fresh from his lab, Grégoire Courtine shows a new method -- combining drugs, electrical stimulation and a robot -- that could re-awaken the neural pathways and help the body learn again to move on its own. See how it works, as a paralyzed rat becomes able to run and navigate stairs.
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Being Quadriplegic I can understand him quite clearly without knowing much about scientific terminologies. Thanks to him and his team.
Absolutely amazing! And what a great presentation. Thank you so much for sharing this on RUclips. I felt sorry for the rat however it is doing something huge for us, people and it seems he/she is appreciated by the whole team!!
The accent added so much to the ingenuity :)
I wish I could have been there to give him a standing ovation. He seems like a wonderful person, and I hope that his research goes far.
I'm so touched by this. Hoping it helps people soon.
I personally work with Dr. Edgerton in a collaboration regarding SCI and through this relationship have been exposed constantly to Dr. Courtine's work... and can therefore attest to this approach. Regeneration has been studied for several decades with no clinically significant outcomes (statistically significant yes, but its not the same), so what do we as physicians (I am an MD/PhD student) do with those currently suffering the life of a SCI patient... wait until regeneration works? I think not! Neuroprothesis is by NO MEANS a cure, but a treatment, and this treatment will work long before regenerative studies produce their desired outcome. Regenaration is the future... Neuroprothesis is the NOW.
+Mauricio Caceres, where can I go to learn more about becoming involved in this process. Please reply. Thank you.
byroncjohnston@yahoo.com
wonderful work of this scientist.
Great speaker, great idea, great study, great results, great potential and I'm so looking forward to seeing this in the future
That was an absolutely amazing talk... and accent.
Bravo ! Continue the good work. Excellent!
Veritasium did a video about this like a year ago. Its great to see its coming along!
Very touching, I almost cried
Amazing work.
thars a great way to look at the situation... not to replace, but to rebuild...
Wonderfully inspirational keep up the great work
Young people and new ideas :) Brilliant!
These are the days of miracle and wonder.
a few years ago on a dark night i was lifting from the car, a young teen with CP who had never walked or stood let alone run. A military jet flew over very low and very loud. Fight or flight took over (both of us) I struggled to keep the child in my arms as his flight mechanism was so strong and so immediate. My sense of how his body responded was the mechnism was so different to his conscious attempts at trying to walk.
Amazing discovery!
Outstanding!
As a spinal injury patient for the last 6 years this is a ray of hope.coming date in india
Fantastic research. I wonder whether different diets would make significant differences. High fat Ketogenic diets are said to be very beneficial for nerve issues. Cannabinoids may also play a role in promoting nerve regrowth but I can't see that research being funded any time soon. Great work, I look forward to hearing more successes from this team.
Beautiful!
???
that guy is the definition of a boss
Golden.
Love his accent and that was amazing!:)
This is a great innovation that shall be persuid
Amazing!!!
cineck Me too, but by the looks of the rat, it didn't mind so much; and it was treated with respect and love. That's a lot more then many other lab animals are treated with.
Does his technique available for patients
This is truly amazing work, It could result in spinal injuries being a thing of the past.
Also I like how people get so upset about a rat but don't care when they hear thousands of people have died.
Is there any thing available at hand I got paraplegic 8 months back
This accent would make every topic hilarious
Great talk. I couldn't help feeling bad for the rat though
Im pretty sure we all know he this man isnt the only one who works with this project.
That sounds like very good news! However the video indicated a continuing need for some sort of electronic implants. I hope the technology can eventually achieve the goal of fully effective healing without the need of artificial aids, even if the spinal cord doesn't become completely repaired.
Such a lovely accent ! X)
Determined Frenchman is determined.
...always pushin' that "chip"
Amazing
He is rocking those jeans.
Did this treatment actually repair the neural connections at the injury site, or was it just the brain rewiring itself through neuronal plasticity?
@ 3:15 - sounds almost like the section of spinal cord below the damage has to be "reset" to respond to the brain's signals again... If I understood that correctly.
I can't wait till they can do that for me
I wish I watched this video in 2013 nov. it would have been perfect timing.
Cut to 5 years later and they helped humans walk.
Same. Usually I have a hard time with an accent. E.g thick British or Irish accents are just a nightmare for me. But I understood everything he was saying.
magnificent.
Well, it follows that, once the spinal cord is repaired, the patient would be free to walk. Rats, however, don't normally walk in 2 legs, which is why the robot was still required for the rat.
HOLY CRAP!!! Wow what a discovery
Ahaha oh my god, this video was so powerful and amazing, but as a French speaker myself I couldn't help but find it funny every time he pronounced a word exactly like he would've in French.
I wonder if this technique enables the damaged spinal cord to eventually carry the signals properly without any further drug therapy or injections...??
We're all gunna have 4 arms!!!
Volontairie contrôle of de legue.
Was the standing ovation ironic?
hahahaha that will make the rat walk whithout any type of medication
so cool
My teacher !
I wonder if something like this could help those suffering from ptsd?
Researchers are experimenting with mental exercises to allow the brain to rewire itself. I am a layman, not a medical professional but I know that just because it is psychological doesn't mean there is no physical damage. A corruption of the chemical balance or "programming" of the brain is a form of damage. This research is proving that the brain and nervous system can repair itself given the right stimuli.
Yes, thick French accent. Had to listen to it several times before I understood what he was saying.
Why do you feel like this is "the ultimate plan? Who's plan? I'd try this.
in the ears
That is what we need scientist that become super stars... What did a baseball player ever accomplish for humanity? Nothing... This dude if you are ingure will be able to make you walk again... Thats a star in my book... Someone give him an MVP trophy and a contract for 100 million dollars.
Poor rat
shut up old hag
now it can walk.
cutting edge work on reconnecting BUT stop trying to re grow, and re connect the nerves ...instead do an artificial electronic bridge...(the brain to artificial arm transmitter already exists) ...
But when will spinal-cord injury victims be able to walk without all that machinery? Once the pathway is re-established, does the rat become able to walk on its own?
AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ohhhhhh the French accent made it so much more interesting
Прошло два года, кто знает новости об этом ?
Is there anyone else as pissed as I am with how google made changes to youtube just now? I lost my settings, I am forced to use this crappy google+, I can't follow posts here, I even lost my icon here! WTF!
I also want to be treated by GregoireCourtine scientist I am Vietnamese who suffered from spinal cord trauma injury.I am addicted to taking my body out so that the researcher can ask for a reply.
So like suffering humans more than suffering animals?
Yeah, good luck getting a source from anyone who leaves a comment like that. It is so easy to hit and run with comments on RUclips.
English is my second language and I CAN, actually, understand every word he says. Maybe I'm just a bad-ass.
Drugs are bad, mmkay?
Best accent NA.
His accent is hot but, its hard to understand what he's saying. Either way great speech. This technology is exciting.
This was actually done by an american doctor almost ten years ago but the procedure is illegal
This is promising for some help. What we need to concentrate on it finding our latent regenerative genes and reactivating them. They think they have found them but they don't know what they're doing enough to call it a treatment yet.
That accent was amazing! The talk however was better. Sorry.
as for your definition of merging with machines being frankenscience, aren't wheelchairs mechanical? YES they are simple man powered machines.
I am a doc btw.
Being paralyzed is a disability whether you like to admit it or not. Any progress is good progress. Deep nerve stimulation is the future for all of us unless you happen to be some kind of nut job that doesn't use electricity or some shit.
#incredible
It's not pleasant but life isn't pleasant. I'd rather cure humans than cry over a few dozen rats, though, maybe that's just me.
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test me please!!
His ass.
Please please please hurry, I can't bear this shit anymore
Illegal to fix someones life, to fix someones spinal core? jeah, that's has to be a joke.
На крысах все и закончилось? 😂
YES closer and closer to neurons regeneration and curing Alzheimer !
QUI QUI
Let the rat go. And let the millions of future paralyzed people go without the ability to walk because we didn't want a couple dozen rats to be experimented on. If you had a child that was paralyzed and you posted that comment, would God cringe?
I can't understand this guy.
can you be a little less specific next time when commenting on scientific videos
Do,you get the HORROR of living in a body that you can no longer use? Because I do. I am paralyzed from the chest down. Until you or a loved one goes through this you can never understand. Because of animal testing we have the advances in medicine we have now. Things like this give me hope that 1 day I'll have more control over my body. So paralyze all the rats you want.
HAS ANYONE HEARD OF A CPG BEFORE?! this is terrible science.
wtf is this guy saying
Amazing