Hannah Jacobs, OT will be presenting her abstract, “Relating Fugl-Meyer Sub-scores to Activities of Daily Living After Stroke,” as an oral presentation at the Occupational Therapy Summit of Scholars on June 22-24, 2023. Her presentation will be on data collected from the SMaHRT Study, a study examining the natural history of arm and hand motor …
Congratulations to LTNr members for their new publication in Frontiers in Digital Health entitled, “SMS-text messaging for collecting outcome measures after acute stroke”, which examines a promising method (SMS-text) for gathering outcomes after acute stroke! SMS-text can be used to evaluate the efficacy of acute stroke treatments at scale and help to keep providers in …
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Julie DiCarlo, MS will be presenting her abstract, “Distinct Clinical and Neuroanatomic Factors Associated with Function-based versus Patient-Reported Outcome Measures After Stroke,” as a poster presentation at the International Neuropsychological Society’s 51st Annual Meeting in San Diego, California on February 1-4, 2023.
Julie DiCarlo, MS will receive the Mary “Kay” Ryan Award for Excellence in Support of Clinical Research in recognition of her remarkable work in supporting clinical research at Massachusetts General Hospital. LTNr PI, David Lin, MD, on Julie’s contribution to clinical research at MGH: “Julie represents so many of the values that are core to …
Richard Hardstone, PhD will receive the MGH Clinical Research Day, Neurology Abstract Award for his abstract titled “Persistent Asymmetry of Aperiodic Resting-state Neural Activity in Both Cortical and Sub-cortical Strokes.” Richard will present his findings and be recognized at the MGH Clinical Research Day on October 13, 2022.
Congratulations on LTNr’s new publication in Neuron with collaborators at UCSF entitled, “Modulation of neural co-firing to enhance network transmission and improve motor function after stroke”, which provides neurophysiologic, neuroanatomic, and translational perspectives on application of neurotechnology to improve recovery after stroke. Authors: Karunesh Ganguly, Preeya Khanna, Robert J. Morecraft, David J. Lin …
Kelly Rishe, MSOT will be presenting her abstract, “Novel clinical trial of portable near-infrared spectroscopy-based (fNIRS) brain computer interface to augment motor recovery after stroke,” as an oral presentation at the Medical Rehabilitation Research Resource (MR3) Network Retreat on September 30th 2022. Her presentation will be on the PROMOTE Trial which integrates a novel portable neuroimaging …
Marina Petrilli, OTD was awarded the 2022 MGH Institute of Health Professions Department of Occupational Therapy Emerging Scholar Award. This award honors a student or group of students that have distinguished themselves through significant participation in scholarly work during their time as occupational therapy students at the MGH Institute of Health Professions or within one year of …
The LTNr team attended the annual meeting of the American Society of Neurorehabilitation (ASNR) in St. Louis, MO. Team members Richard Hardstone, Julie DiCarlo, and Sarah Cavanagh all presented their accepted abstracts as poster presentations on April 1, 2022. The titles of their abstracts are: Richard Hardstone, PhD: “Persistent Asymmetry of Aperiodic Resting-State Neural Activity …
Congratulations to Dr. Kimberly Erler for her paper, “Association of Modified Rankin Scale with Recovery Phenotypes in Patients with Upper Extremity Weakness after Stroke,” that was published in Neurology and has important implications for stroke clinical trials. Authors: Kimberly S. Erler, Rui Wu, Julie A. DiCarlo, Marina F. Petrilli, Perman Gochyyev, Leigh R. Hochberg, Steven A. Kautz, Lee H. Schwamm, Steven C. …