Authors: David J. Lin, Seth P. Finklestein, Steven C. Cramer Stroke is the leading cause of neurological disability in the United States and worldwide. Remarkable advances have been made over the past 20 years in acute vascular treatments to reduce infarct size and improve neurological outcome. Substantially, less progress has been made in treatments to enhance …
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Authors: David J. Lin, Alison M. Cloutier, Kimberly S. Erler, Jessica M. Cassidy, Samuel B. Snider, Jessica Ranford, Kristin Parlman, Fabio Giatsidis, James F. Burke, Lee H. Schwamm, Seth P. Finklestein, Leigh R. Hochberg, Steven C. Cramer Abstract: Background and Purpose — Injury to the corticospinal tract (CST) has been shown to have a major effect on upper …
Authors: Bonin Pinto C., Morales-Quezada .L, de Toledo Piza P.V., Zeng D., Saleh Vélez F.G., Ferreira I.S., Lucena P.H., Duarte D., Lopes F., El-Hagrassy M.M., Rizzo L.V., Camargo E.C., Lin D.J., Mazwi N., Wang Q.M., Black-Schaffer R., Fregni F. Abstract: Background. Although recent evidence has shown a new role of fluoxetine in motor rehabilitation, results are mixed. We …
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Julie DiCarlo received her Master of Science degree in Health and Wellness from Merrimack College in May 2019.
Congratulations to Dr. David Lin for presenting a winning pitch at Stroke Tank. The winnings will provide funding to start to scale our MGH SMaHRT (Stroke Motor reHabilitation and Recovery sTudy) to the hospitals in the NECC network.
Authors: David J. Lin, Erin Kang, Chinfei Chen Abstract: Recent studies have demonstrated that vision influences the functional remodeling of the mouse retinogeniculate synapse, the connection between retinal ganglion cells and thalamic relay neurons in the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN). Initially, each relay neuron receives a large number of weak retinal inputs. Over a 2- to …