This week, BlazerCast features a rehabilitation therapy developed by a UAB neuroscientist which produces changes in the structure of the brain, the first evidence of actual brain remodeling resulting from a rehabilitation therapy.
In findings presented online in Stroke, a Journal of the American Heart Association, sophisticated analysis of MRI images of stroke patients showed that Constraint Induced therapy produced a significant increase in the amount of gray matter present in the brains of patients receiving the therapy.
Remodeling the Brain
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April 22, 2008
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Arts Week at UAB is March 30-April 9The community is invited to experience the arts being created by UAB students and faculty with this curated list of performances and happenings. -
For Beth Shelburne (MA ‘18), the path to the Oscars ran through UABWhen the 98th Academy Awards nominations were announced in January, one title caught the attention of many Alabamians: “The Alabama Solution.” Co-producing the HBO documentary — which explores the state’s prison system through the perspectives of incarcerated people — is Beth Shelburne, a graduate of UAB’s English Master of Arts program and a Birmingham-based investigative journalist. -
Theatre UAB presents “Murder on the Orient Express” from March 25-29Kelley Schoger directs her first Theatre UAB production, taking audiences on a wild, wickedly funny and emotional ride with mystery writer Agatha Christie’s world-famous detective Hercule Poirot.