Repair and Plasticity

Repair and Plasticity supports research in spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, recovery of function, plasticity of the nervous system, neural circuits that underlie specific behaviors, repair of the nervous system in injury and disease, stem cell biology, neural prosthesis, neuroengineering, and other means of repairing the nervous system in injury and disease.

• To understand mechanisms of plasticity in the healthy nervous system and explore implications for repair.
• To develop interventions to modify the course of injury and disease progression and improve functional outcome in individuals following injury to the nervous system.
• To understand the course of degeneration and repair following spinal cord injury and brain injury on timescales ranging from seconds to years.
• To understand the role of endogenous neurogenesis as well as stem and progenitor cell biology in the development and repair of the nervous system.
• To promote the development of neural prosthetic devices designed to restore function after neurological injury or disease.

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Workshop Summary

• NIH-FDA Workshop: Pluripotent Stem Cells in Translation: Preclinical Considerations July 10-11, 2012
  Videocast presentations:  Day 1 and   Day 2
• NIH-FDA Workshop:  Pluripotent Stem Cells in Translation: Early Decisions March 21-22, 2011
  Videocast presentations:  Day 1 and Day 2
• Neurological Effects of Blast Injury Workshop April 10, 2008
• Combination Therapies for Traumatic Brain Injury Workshop February 27, 2008
• Classification of Traumatic Brain Injury Workshop October 17, 2007
• All NINDS Workshop Summaries and Conference Proceedings

Repair and Plasticity Funding Initiatives

• All active Repair and Plasticity funding opportunities

Repair and Plasticity Program Staff

Scientific Staff	Research Area
Ramona Hicks, Ph.D. Program Director	Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
Kip Ludwig, Ph.D. Program Director	Neural engineering with emphases in neuromodulation, brain-computer interface (BCI) devices, neural interface technology development
David Owens, Ph.D. Program Director	Stem cell biology, nervous system development
Debra Bergstrom, Ph.D. Program Analyst
Yolanda Vallejo, Ph.D. Program Analyst

Address

Repair and Plasticity, NINDS
Neuroscience Center, Room 2209, MSC9525
6001 Executive Boulevard
Bethesda, MD 20892-9525
Telephone: 301-496-1447
FAX: 301-480-1080