Browse wide-ranging research at the frontiers of neuroscience supported by Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute grants, awards, and training fellowships.
Projects
Investigating longitudinal white matter changes after juvenile stroke
Over half of pediatric stroke survivors develop cognitive impairment, limiting their educational attainment and imposing significant financial and emotional burdens on survivors and their families. However, children’s chronic cognitive symptoms are poorly explained by stroke size or location.
Mapping myelin plasticity in mouse models of generalized epilepsy
In epilepsy, a disease affecting 1% of all children, brain networks undergo maladaptive change (plasticity) and become predisposed to seizures. In the 30-40% of children with epilepsy who have medication-resistant seizures, the seizures become more frequent and severe over time, with concurrent loss of cognitive ability.