For more than three decades wheelchair athletes of all ages from the tri-state area and beyond have headed to Burke Rehabilitation Hospital to participate in the annual Wheelchair Games.
Nature interviewed Dr. Edwards about the use and ability of transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS) devices for enhancing athletic performance for the article ‘Brain doping’ may improve athletes’ performance: Electrical stimulation seems to boost endurance in preliminary studies.
Dr. Francesco Boato, a research scientist of the Molecular Regeneration and Neuroimaging Laboratory at Burke Medical Research Institute, has been granted a travel award to give a talk at the 16th International Symposium on Neural Regeneration in Asilomar, California.
