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Executive Function and Social Cognition
Research covers decision making, reward process, reasoning, action planning, response inhibition, metacognition, social judgment & pro-social/empathic behavior.
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Functional Connectivity in the Upper Limb for Individuals Post-Stroke
This project focuses on the neuroplastic mechanisms that enable some people with stroke to regain high quality control of their paretic arm post-stroke.
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C-STAR Collaborative Mentorship
Our program provides junior faculty and early-career rehabilitation researchers with mentoring and career advancement guidance from senior scientists and clinicians at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab.
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Dave Takes Big Step in Journey from Limb Loss to Lawyer
Thirty-five-year-old Dave J. graduated from law school with hopes of embarking on a legal career. However, a congenital heart defect slowed Dave’s progress toward becoming a lawyer. He was told he needed a heart transplant. Read Dave's full story.
Patient Story
Dr. Lieber and Dr. Son Publish Results of Groundbreaking Reconstructive Surgery to Improve Hand Function After Tetraplegia
Richard Lieber, PhD, Jongsang Son, PhD and Jan Friden, MD, PhD, developed a novel approach to reconstructive surgery that can benefit patients who were not previously considered good candidates for surgery based on the ICSHT system.
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A Day in the Life: Performing Arts Physician Saves Careers by Fine-tuning Artists’ Form
Maria Reese, MD, still remembers landing in a Tennessee emergency department with a knee injury as a young dancer. The prognosis was grim: she would never dance again. Reese recently recalled “being devastated and thinking I'll prove that to be wrong, I'll get back to dancing.” And she did.
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FAQs
Get answers to your questions — whether you’re a prospective patient or inquiring on behalf of one — about the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab.
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Dr. Prakash Jayabalan Receives Research Grant from Foundation for PM&R
Prakash Jayabalan, MD, PhD, attending physician and clinician-scientist at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, recently was honored with the 2019 Scott F. Nadler PASSOR Musculoskeletal Research Grant from the Foundation for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
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ExoNET
Can you build a minimally-actuated exo-robot as a wearable orthosis? Maybe one that is most simply built out of springs? It may not do everything, but what can you do? The secret is to allow networks of springs, and structural optimization algorithm that tells us how to build it.
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ExoNET for Gait
Is it possible to use a network of springs to make up for what the muscles do during walking and hence assist gait? This study shows the potential of the ExoNET device to reproduce the torques generated by your muscles while you walk. We feel that this structural design can guide devices in the future and may lead to clinical tools that are lightweight, unintimidating, easy to use, and inexpensive.
Research Project
Forearm ExoNET
Can you build a soft, exo-robot as a wearable orthosis to provide assistance during both rehabilitation and activities of daily living? Can this same device also be used as a therapeutic device by tuning to anti-assistance mode, providing more meaningful therapy to the user?
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Muscle Injury and Repair
Defining the relationships between muscle injury and muscle repair.
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