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Rare Disease Day brings worldwide attention to more than 7,000 rare diseases , articleVirginia Tech research into rare diseases — those that individually affect 200,000 or fewer but collectively touch 1 in 10 people in the U.S. — provides hope in identifying, treating, and supporting patients.
Date: Feb 28, 2024 -
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It’s the ‘thing in my life that shaped me the most,’ participant says of life-changing therapy , articleAfter experiencing a stroke in utero that caused weakness on the left side of her body, Keya Shapiro found a home at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute’s Neuromotor Research Clinic, which is celebrating 10 years of research into the therapy.
Date: Jan 17, 2024 -
Video ItemIt’s the ‘thing in my life that shaped me the most,’ participant says of life-changing therapy , video
After experiencing a stroke in utero that caused weakness on the left side of her body, Keya Shapiro found a home at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute’s Neuromotor Research Clinic – which is celebrating 10 years of research into the therapy.
Date: Dec 20, 2023 -
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Eminent scientists say a child-centric approach is the blueprint to improve communities , articleCommunities can prosper by providing attentive education and social services to their youngest residents — but the challenge is for leaders to work together, according to scientists at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute.
Date: Dec 04, 2023 -
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Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC: Growth of an innovator , articleSince its founding in 2010, the research institute has become a focal point for biomedical research across Virginia Tech. It now has more than 450 faculty, staff, and students in Roanoke and Washington, D.C., supporting research fueled by $173.7 million in external grants.
Date: Aug 29, 2023 -
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Therapy framework reveals promise for intensive pediatric rehabilitation for children with motor disabilities , articleVirginia Tech researchers with the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC have demonstrated that children with a wide range of diagnoses that affect their motor function improve after receiving intensive pediatric rehabilitation called ACQUIRE Therapy.
Date: Jun 16, 2023 -
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Researchers associate early life stress with pro-inflammatory processes later in life during pregnancy , articleWomen who experienced high stress during childhood and adolescence may be preset for inflammation during pregnancy, according to Sharon Landesman Ramey of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC.
Date: Mar 28, 2023 -
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‘The right place’: Sisters with rare disorder find help , articleSisters with a very rare genetic mutation that affects brain development are benefitting from a form of intensive therapy being studied at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Neuromotor Research Clinic.
Date: Feb 03, 2023 -
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Fralin Biomedical Research Institute occupational therapists train colleagues, treat children in Morocco clinic , articleKelsey Burke and Megan Price, occupational therapists in the Neuromotor Research Clinic at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, took a personal volunteer trip to Morocco with a humanitarian group last year. They educated therapists and parents in pediatric therapy techniques.
Date: Mar 02, 2022 -
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Rare disease research gives families hope, ‘vital’ to advancing medicine , articleRare diseases afflict 300 million people worldwide. Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC researchers are bridging a gap in scientific knowledge by studying some of the diseases that together add up to a formidable public health challenge. Feb. 28 marks the 14th international Rare Disease Day.
Date: Feb 28, 2022 -
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Large doses of intensive therapy better for children with cerebral palsy, Virginia Tech scientists, partners find , articleThe study, funded by the National Institutes of Health’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, shows that higher doses of Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy – 20 three-hour sessions over four weeks – yield significant and lasting improvement in use of their arms and hands, especially in everyday functional activities.
Date: Oct 14, 2021 -
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Scientists say active early learning shapes the adult brain , articleThrough the Abecedarian Project, an early education, randomized controlled trial that has followed children since 1971, Virginia Tech researchers, including Craig Ramey, Sharon Landesman Ramey, and Read Montague, revealed new discoveries about brain structure that have continued through decades.
Date: May 31, 2021 -
Video ItemScientists say active early learning shapes the adult brain , video
Through the Abecedarian Project, an early education, randomized controlled trial that has followed children since 1971, researchers from Virginia Tech and the University of Pennsylvania have discovered an enhanced learning environment during the first five years of life shapes the brain in ways that are apparent four decades later. Authors of the study include professors Sharon Landesman Ramey, Craig Ramey, and Read Montague of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute of Virginia Tech, and Martha Farah, director of the Center for Neuroscience & Society at Penn. The study appears in the June edition of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
Date: May 26, 2021 -
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Maternal stress may disrupt children’s health, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, UCLA researchers find , articleUnmanaged, prenatal stress can adversely affect children’s lives, potentially heightening the likelihood of disease later in life, according to researchers at the Fralin Biomedical Institute at VTC and the University of California at Los Angeles.
Date: Feb 24, 2021 -
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Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, partners pioneer nation’s first pediatric rehabilitation resource center , articleResearch partners across three institutions are opening the nation’s first and only resource center, known as C-PROGRESS, dedicated to promoting clinical trials research in the rapidly expanding field of pediatric rehabilitation.
Date: Jul 21, 2020 -
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Virginia Tech faculty receive top honors from the American Association for the Advancement of Science , articleElected by their peers and representing a broad range of AAAS “sections,” including statistics, neuroscience, engineering, psychology, and geology/geography, the Virginia Tech professors are among 443 newly elected scholars.
Date: Nov 26, 2019 -
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Nation’s first clinical trial for infant stroke begins at Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC , articleStrokes are devastating events often associated with people over 65. But large numbers of infants have strokes, too. Now, in the nation’s first multicenter pediatric stroke recovery trial, researchers and clinicians from 12 sites across the United States, including the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, will evaluate a new approach.=https://video.vt.edu/media/Nation%E2%80%99s+first+clinical+trial+for+infant+stroke+begins+at+Fralin+Biomedical/1_gs5rr4b0
Date: Mar 27, 2019 -
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Nation’s first clinical trial for rehabilitating infant stroke victims to begin , articleCalled I-ACQUIRE, the Phase III clinic trial will examine the effectiveness of a pediatric therapy to increase upper extremity skills, gross motor development, and cognition in 240 children nationwide who experienced strokes when they were under 4 weeks old.
Date: Mar 25, 2019 -
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VTCRI researchers find positive effects of early education intervention four decades later , articleNew research published in Nature Communications, led by Read Montague, of the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, suggests that participants who received educational interventions in early childhood show positive effects on social decision-making more than four decades later.
Date: Nov 20, 2018 -
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Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists: high-quality, early childhood education has significant benefits , articleChildren given high-quality education at an early age – starting at 6 weeks old and continuing through their first five years of life – are more likely to be employed full-time and have better relationships with their parents as adults, according to new results from a longitudinal study now entering its fifth decade.
Date: Apr 21, 2017
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