Dr. Roberto Romero – CPI Research Foundation Advisors in the News
Dr. Roberto Romero, Chief of the Perinatology Research Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Development and a former member of the CPI Research Foundation Scientific Advisory Council (SAC), describes the importance of vaginal progesterone in reducing pre-term birth and neonatal complications in a recent press release from the Detroit Medical Center. For [...]
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Dr. Diane Damiano – CPI Research Foundation Advisors in the News
Dr. Diane Damiano, Chief of Functional and Applied Biomechanics Section at the NIH Clinical Center, longstanding member of the CPI Research Foundation SAC and one of our former Hausman awardees, was part of an NIH study team that tested the effectiveness of an electrical stimulator device (WalkAide) on individuals with CP that have a form [...]
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Dance Therapy Paying Dividends
Although Dr. Citlali Lopez-Ortiz’s research study through Northwestern University’s Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago has not yet been completed, Sophia Jablonski, an eleven year old with cerebral palsy who is participating in the Joffrey Ballet’s annual production of “The Nutcracker” is certainly helping make the case for this innovative form of therapy. Dr. Lopez-Ortiz, recipient [...]
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CPI Research Foundation Board Approves $350,000 Funding for Four New Research Projects
The CPI Research Foundation board of directors met on October 26, 2011 and approved research funding for four new pilot studies (see below for further description). The grants, which were peer reviewed and recommended for funding to the board of directors by the CPI Research Foundation’s Scientific Advisory Council, represent a $200,000 commitment in 2012 [...]
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“Role of Astrocytes in Cerebral Palsy” Principal Investigator Vittorio Gallo, Ph.D., Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC
By gaining a better understanding of the role of altered astrocyte development and function in white matter brain injury after chronic hypoxia (HX), the study findings will help develop new cell-specific therapeutic approaches for brain injuries seen in premature infants with cerebral palsy and help to decrease neurological morbidity associated with cerebral palsy in very [...]
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New Fetal Oxygen Device
25 January 2012
CHICAGO (WMAQ) – It’s small, but may have a huge impact by saving thousands of families the heartache of a baby born with cerebral palsy. It works by measuring the oxygen level of babies more accurately before birth. For every 100 babies born, one will be oxygen deprived. At its worst it can lead to [...]
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A protein may help prevent brain damage that occurs in babies with CP
19 January 2012
Cerebral Palsy Posted on:January 18, 2012 Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine, in St. Louis, have shown that a protein may help prevent the kind of brain damage that occurs in babies with cerebral palsy [The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,108 (47): 19054-59].Using a mouse model that mimics the condition in newborns, [...]
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Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT) also called Constraint-Induced Therapy (CIT)
15 January 2012
According to the Children’s Hemiplegia and Stroke Association (www.chasa.org) constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT), sometimes called “forced use therapy”, has been used in the adult stroke population for years. Recently, this type of therapy has gained the attention of therapists who work with children who have hemiplegia (weakness on one side of the body due to [...]
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CPIRF Hausman Awardee Sheds New Light on Steroid Impact Upon Brain Growth in Pre-term Infants
26 October 2011
Jack and Ethel Hausman Clinical Scholar award recipient Emily Tam, MD, Child Neurologist in the Neurological Intensive Care Nursery at the UCSF has determined that even low doses of glucocorticoids (a class of steroid hormones used in premature babies to support lung maturation, the normalization of blood pressure and breathing) are associated with impaired cerebellar [...]
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CPIRF Recipient of Two Major Foundation Grants
18 August 2011
CPIRF is pleased to report a $200,000 grant from the William Randolph Hearst Foundation and a $50,000 grant from the F. M. Kirby Foundation were recently received. The William Randolph Hearst Foundation grant will be used to complete four CPIRF research projects: Emily Wing Yun Tam, M.D.C.M. University of California San Francisco – $75,000 – [...]
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Memorial Walk to Benefit CPIRF
20 May 2011
The life of Juliana Leigh Klein, a beautiful 5 year old girl with CP who died in October of 2008, will be remembered and celebrated in a special way. On Saturday, May 28, 2011, the Walk for Cerebral Palsy in Memory of Juliana will take place in Connecticut at the Southington High School track from [...]
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CPIRF to again co-sponsor the West Coast Conference in June, 2011 presented by The Cerebral Palsy Group
13 May 2011
The Cerebral Palsy Group Presents Co- sponsored by Cerebral Palsy International Research Foundation Area Board VI I on Developmental Disabilities United Cerebral Palsy of Santa Clara & San Mateo Counties For more details and to register for this event, click here.
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A New Look at General Anesthesia and the Developing Brain
09 May 2011
A growing body of evidence suggests that the developing brain is uniquely vulnerable to anesthetic agents. The developmental risk associated with exposure to general anesthesia in young children is largely unknown. In an editorial from the FDA published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the authors describe a growing body of evidence suggesting that [...]
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“Preterm Birth, Complications Related to Cerebral Palsy Reduced” – presentation from Scientific Advisory Council member Roberto J. Romero, MD.
05 May 2011
American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) 59th Annual Clinical Meeting This coverage is not sanctioned by, nor a part of, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. From Medscape Medical News Preterm Birth, Complications Related to Cerebral Palsy Reduced Alice Goodman Authors and Disclosures Information from Industry Older patients are the least likely to [...]
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New Funding Opportunity Announcements on Neonatal Hypoglycemia Published
10 December 2010
The Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch (PPB) of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development is very pleased to inform that three new Funding Opportunity Announcements on Neonatal Hypoglycemia have been published. The links to each are below. These announcements were the result of 2008 workshop on the topic at PPB, and [...]
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We are pleased to announce a new feature to our website that will provide information and updates from CPI Research Foundation Medical Director Dr. James A. Blackman on cerebral palsy research topics of interest. Please read the first of Dr. Blackman’s articles which describes current thinking related to use of constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT).
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