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Toward exercise as medicine for adolescents with bipolar disorder
Project Overview
This project focuses on improving aerobic fitness (AF) among adolescents with bipolar disorder (BD). BD affects 2-5% of adolescents and is the 4th most disabling medical condition among adolescents worldwide. Even with treatment, adolescents with BD spend over half of the time with mood symptoms that impair quality of life.…
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See the project and researchersParent-therapist partnership to provide early, intensive exercise to enhance walking outcomes in children with perinatal stroke
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Perinatal (around birth) stroke is devastating, because the effects are life-long. Current treatments to improve walking are limited, and largely passive, such as stretching, bracing, botulinum toxin injections and surgery. Recent work in animals indicates that intensive active therapy is effective in the young, when nerve pathways for movement are…
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See the project and researchersImplementation of a Clinical Pathway for Acute Care of Pediatric Concussion: Uptake, Outcomes, and Health Care Impacts
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Each year, 1-2 million children in North America suffer a concussion. Guidelines exist to manage the care of concussion in children but have not been implemented consistently. As a result, clinical practice varies widely from one health provider to another. This may be because clinical guidelines have not been translated…
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See the project and researchersImproving Quality of Life in the Elderly by Standardizing Care for Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Dementia
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Aggression and agitation are common symptoms among patients with dementia. These symptoms are the leading cause for hospitalization and admission to long-term care homes. Medication treatments that are commonly used to treat these symptoms have significant adverse effects including falls, stroke and increased risk of death. These adverse effects are…
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See the project and researchersInvestigating the Neurodevelopmental Trajectory of Emotional Face Processing in Autism Spectrum Disorder
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An understanding of emotional information from faces is critical for successful social interactions. A key component of ASD is poor social functioning. Deficits and dysfunction in the ‘social network’ of the brain have been reported in ASD, as well as differences in how individual regions of the brain communicate with…