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Parent-therapist partnership to provide early, intensive exercise to enhance walking outcomes in children with perinatal stroke

  • Grant Type

    Team grants

  • Area of research

    Injury

  • Disease Area

    Stroke

  • Competition

    Improving Health Outcomes and Quality of Life

  • Province

    Alberta

  • Start Date

    2018

  • Total Grant Amount

    $537,000

  • Health Canada Contribution

    $268,500

Project Overview

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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Implementation of a Clinical Pathway for Acute Care of Pediatric Concussion: Uptake, Outcomes, and Health Care Impacts

  • Grant Type

    Team grants

  • Area of research

    Injury

  • Disease Area

    Brain Injury

  • Competition

    Improving Health Outcomes and Quality of Life

  • Province

    Alberta

  • Start Date

    2018

  • Total Grant Amount

    $429,000

  • Health Canada Contribution

    $214,500

Project Overview

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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Improving Quality of Life in the Elderly by Standardizing Care for Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of Dementia

  • Grant Type

    Team grants

  • Area of research

    Neurodegeneration

  • Disease Area

    Alzheimer’s

  • Competition

    Improving Health Outcomes and Quality of Life

  • Province

    Ontario

  • Start Date

    2018

  • Total Grant Amount

    $1,405,889

  • Health Canada Contribution

    $702,945

Project Overview

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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Investigating the Neurodevelopmental Trajectory of Emotional Face Processing in Autism Spectrum Disorder

  • Grant Type

    Capacity building grants

  • Area of research

    Neurodevelopment

  • Disease Area

    Autism

  • Competition

    Brain Canada - Kids Brain Health Network Training Awards

  • Province

    Ontario

  • Start Date

    2018

  • Total Grant Amount

    $110,000

  • Health Canada Contribution

    $55,000

Project Overview

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…

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Interleukin-1 blockade along with hypothermia to prevent cerebral palsy arising from refractory neonatal asphyxia

  • Grant Type

    Capacity building grants

  • Area of research

    Injury

  • Disease Area

    Other

  • Competition

    Brain Canada - Kids Brain Health Network Training Awards

  • Province

    Québec

  • Start Date

    2018

  • Total Grant Amount

    $70,000

  • Health Canada Contribution

    $35,000

Project Overview

Neonatal asphyxia and subsequent cerebral palsy (CP) is a severe pathology resulting from lack of oxygen and/or infection-inflammation. This disease still leads to mortality or severe brain injuries and long-term disabilities. Therapeutic hypothermia (decreased body temperature to 33-34°C during 3 days) is the only treatment available for these newborns. Despite…

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