In a summer camp-like setting from June 25-29, the Friel Lab hosted kids with cerebral palsy (CP) for the NIH-funded clinical trial “Bimanual Training & Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) on Hand Function in Children with Hemiplegia.”
With a deep understanding that there is an urgent need to advance treatments for Cerebral Palsy (CP), the most common motor disability in childhood1, Dr.
In a landmark research study on eighty-two children with spastic cerebral palsy (CP) on one side of the body, researchers at Burke Neurological Institute, Teacher’s College-Columbia University, and Weill Cornell Medicine learned that two intensive training therapies improved hand and arm function, allowing children to learn new, long-term life skills regardless of how the injured brain had re-wired itself.
Kathleen M Friel , Claudio L Ferre, Marina Brandao, Hsing-Ching Kuo, Karen Chin, Ya-Ching Hung, Maxime T Robert, Veronique H Flamand, Ana Smorenburg, Yannick Bleyenheuft, Jason B Carmel, Talita Campos, Andrew M Gordon
