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SUMMARY:Reactivate\, Rewire\, Restore - Priming the nervous system to opti
 mize function after spinal cord injury
DTSTART:20180605T143000
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Edelle Field-Fote\, Emory University School of Medicine\
 , Atlanta\, USA.\nSpinal cord and brain mechanisms underlying the control 
 of movement adapt in response to training.  In persons with spinal cord i
 njury this beneficial neural adaptation\, or adaptive neuroplasticity\, is
  supportive of function and can counteract some aspects of the maladaptive
  plasticity that is associated with neuropathology.  Afferent inputs such
  as stimulation and vibration engage many of the same mechanisms that are 
 activated by training\, and these inputs can augment training effects.  U
 sing what is known about neural responses to afferent input\, treatment st
 rategies can be structured to incorporate stimulation and vibration into t
 raining programs to improve motor function in persons with spinal cord inj
 ury and other neurologic conditions.\n\nShort Bio\nAs director of spinal c
 ord injury (SCI) research and the Hulse Spinal Injury Laboratory at Shephe
 rd Center\, Dr. Field-Fote leads a team dedicated to improving motor funct
 ion in persons with SCI through the development of rehabilitation approach
 es informed by the latest neuroscience research. Her contributions to SCI 
 literature include the largest study to date of locomotor training for per
 sons with chronic\, motor-incomplete SCI\, as well as the first-ever study
  of a rehabilitation intervention to promote neuroplasticity for improved 
 hand function in persons with tetraplegia.  \nWith a clinical background 
 as a physical therapist and Ph.D. training in an animal model of SCI\, Dr.
  Field-Fote's 20+ years of SCI research have spanned the breadth of basic 
 and clinical research related to SCI. Dr. Field-Fote’s research has bee
 n funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) since 1997\, and also 
 by the National Institute on Independent Living\, Disability and Rehabilit
 ation Research (NILDRR) and the Department of Defense (DoD). Dr. Field-Fo
 te is the editor/author of the textbook Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation 
 (FA Davis Publishers). She currently serves as editor-in-chief of the Jour
 nal of Neurologic Physical Therapy\, and as project director of the Southe
 astern Regional Spinal Cord Injury Model System at Shepherd Center. Dr. Fi
 eld-Fote is also a professor at the Emory University School of Medicine in
  the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine and a professor at the Georgia 
 Institute of Technology in the School of Biological Sciences.
LOCATION:Campus Biotech H8 Auditorium
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