Word: sensationism
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Instantaneous and voluntary was not supposed to be a state of motor control Reeve would ever achieve again--not since he fractured his neck at the second cervical vertebra in a horseback-riding accident in 1995. But Reeve's doctors announced last week that a little of what the actor...
Over the next month, he put Reeve through a battery of tests. Magnetic-resonance imaging showed that the signal commanding the finger originated in the correct region of the brain, meaning that at least one clean circuit was intact. With a little coaxing, Reeve brought more circuits online, learning to...
In the two years since, Reeve and McDonald have coaxed still more from his slowly stirring nervous system. Working in McDonald's lab and with private therapists, Reeve spends at least three hours a week on an FES bicycle, receives similar muscle stimulation on parts of his upper body and...
The tomb of the boy king Tutankhamen created a sensation from the moment it was uncovered in 1922. One of the few royal burial chambers that survived the centuries relatively intact, it was by far the richest--filled with gold, ivory and carved wooden treasures, including what may be the...
IMPROVING. CHRISTOPHER REEVE, 49, former Superman actor paralyzed from the neck down in a 1995 equestrian accident; following treatment in St. Louis. After three years of innovative"activity-based" therapy, Reeve has regained a limited degree of movement and sensation in his hands and feet, and can breathe on his...