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Ms. Izadi-Najafabadi’s research focuses on the effect of Cognitive Orientation to Occupational Performance (CO-OP)—the current best-practiced intervention for children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD)—on their structural and functional brain connectivity.

Dr.  Hutchison‘s training is in lifespan psychology and her research broadly focuses on children’s cognitive and social development.

The existing treatment regimens for children with ependymomas are generally not successful and if successful survivors are left with considerable disabilities including severely diminished IQ, focal neurological and language deficits, and endocrine deficiencies.

Stroke is one of the leading causes of cerebral palsy in children that carried to term, and 60% have lifelong consequences.

The hippocampus has the highest concentration of glucocorticoid receptors in the brain, and is therefore a primary target for glucocorticoids.

Maternal depression, particularly during pregnancy, has been well established as a risk factor for child socio-emotional problems.

Huntington disease (HD) is an inherited disorder that causes progressive malfunctioning and death of parts of the brain that control movement, reasoning and emotions.

Magnetic Seizure Therapy (MST) is a novel form of treatment that uses high intensity magnetic field pulses to stimulate the brain and induce a seizure as a therapeutic intervention for patients with depression resistant to antidepressant medication, known as Treatment Resistant Depression (TRD).

Major breakthroughs in neuroscience have been achieved through the application of computational models to empirical research.

Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a debilitating neurodegenerative disease for which there is no cure.