BRAIN CREATE members publish findings on spinal cord stimulators to bridge blood pressure regulation

BRAIN CREATE team member, Dr. Aaron Phillips, PhD, and PhD student, Elaine Soriano, along with colleagues from UCalgary and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, co-led an international study that found that blood pressure can be controlled without medication after spinal cord injury. Spine stimulators lead to major quality of life improvement for individuals with spinal cord injuries. This research was made possible in part by an NSERC CREATE grant which supports HBI’s BRAIN CREATE Interdisciplinary Training Program for New Neurotechnologies. Their findings were published in Nature.

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