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Children's Hemiplegia and Stroke Association, CHASA, the first non-profit organization in North America to offer information and support to families of infants, children, and young adults who have hemiplegia or hemiplegic cerebral palsy.

NINDS Fact Sheet on Cerebral Palsy

Spasticity Information Page at National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke NINDS - What is Spasticity -Treatment - Prognosis - Research - Clinical Trials and Organizations

Hypertonia Information Page at National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke NINDS - What is hypertonia - Treatment - Prognosis - Research - Clinical Trials and Organizations

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke NINDS - Neurological Diagnostic Tests and Procedures

Hypertonia Treatment Information at National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke NINDS

NINDS National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke - Brain Basics: Know Your Brain - Cerebral Cortex

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke NINDS Orthopedic surgery and cerebral palsy

The Intramural Research Program of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) is one of the largest neuroscience research centers in the world. Investigators in the NINDS intramural program conduct research in the basic, translational, and clinical neurosciences. Their specific interests cover a broad range of neuroscience research including molecular biophysics, synapses and circuits, neuronal development, integrative neuroscience, brain imaging and neurological disorders

PEDIATRICS - Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatris - Vol. 113, No. 2, 2004. Study assessing Constraint-Induced Movement therapy. Constraint-Induced Movement (CI) therapy has been found to be a promising treatment for substantially increasing the use of extremities affected by such neurologic injuries as stroke and traumatic brain injury in adults. The purpose of this study was to determine the applicability of this intervention to young children with cerebral palsy. Study concluded that Pediatric Constraint Induced Therapy produced major and sustained improvement in motoric function in the young children with hemiparesis in the study.

Myoclonus Information Page at National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke NINDS

The Fern Lab - The Fern lab is located in the Department of Neurology at the University of Washington in Seattle. The lab's research focuses on ischemic injury of the brain, in particular the neonatal/developing brain. Ischemia is the term given to a loss of blood supply and can arise due to obstruction of a blood vessel (leading to a stroke), or from factors that are currently not well understood but which produce the brain injury that underlies cerebral palsy.

The mission is to reduce the burden of neurological disease. Conducts, fosters, coordinates, and guides research on the causes, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of neurological disorders and stroke, and supports basic research in related scientific areas. Provides grants-in-aid to public and private institutions and individuals in fields related to its areas of interest, including research project, program project, and research center grants.Operates a program of contracts for the funding of research and research support efforts in selected areas of institute need. Provides fellowships to increase scientific expertise in neurological fields. Conducts a diversified program of intramural and collaborative research. Collects and disseminates research information related to neurological disorders

Online brochure describing what Cerebral Palsy is, its causes, its treatments, and how it might possibly be prevented.

Information and news on study funded by National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) helps explain why newborn brain responds differently to anticonvulsant medications.

Study will determine the effectiveness, mechanism, and safety of 5 treatments of 6-Hz primed low-frequency rTMS applied to the non-stroke hemisphere and combined with constraint induced therapy (CIT) to promote recovery of the paretic hand.

Citicoline Brain Injury Treatment (COBRIT) trial of the effects of 90 days of citicoline on functional outcome in patients with complicated mild, moderate and severe traumatic brain injury. Citicoline (also known as CDP-Choline) is a naturally occurring endogenous compound. Citicoline may have neuroprotective effects and may potentiate neuro-recovery which has led to the evaluation of it as treatment for both stroke and TBI in animal models and in human clinical trials.

NINDS definition of dystonia

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke NINDS study will use high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to look for subtle differences in brain anatomy between patients with focal hand dystonia (also called writer's cramp) and healthy normal volunteers. Patients with hand dystonia have prolonged muscle contractions that cause sustained twisting movements and abnormal postures. These abnormal movements often occur with activities such as writing, typing, playing certain musical instruments such as guitar or piano, or playing golf or darts.

NINDS Information Sheet on Seizures and Epilepsy: Hope through Research