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Project Summary Cytoprotective and restorative treatments for acute ischemic stroke (AIS) is a major unmet medical need. The current standard of care for stroke patients is centered on recanalization efforts to restore cerebral perfusion through the administration of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) or mechanical thrombectomy. However, despite a recent extension of recanalization treatment windo ...

Abstract Depression is common, imposing a tremendous societal burden in terms of cost, morbidity, quality of life, and mortality. The great majority of people with depression are treated in primary care, however outcomes remain poor. There have been two broad attempts to address this problem. One is collaborative care, which uses care managers to coordinate patient care. Collaborative care can be ...

Abstract. Hispanic Americans are the largest and fastest growing US minority and, over coming decades, will show the largest relative increase in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) incidence of any ethnic group. However, Spanish-speaking Hispanics have been largely excluded from clinical trials and research studies for several reasons: (1) Only 5.5% of US neuropsychologists have sufficient fluency to admi ...

Psychiatric disorders give rise to aberrant patterns of activity within the complex neural circuits of our brains. Yet, the exact nature of these abnormal patterns is often unknown to developers of new treatments. The goal of this project is to enable circuit-oriented research of neuropsychiatric diseases using rodent disease models. The long-term objective is to catalyze the discovery of new ther ...

There is a need and opportunity to improve the lives of the many tens of thousands of young cancer survivors annually, who face lifelong hormone imbalance and infertility due to cancer treatments that damage their reproductive organs. Ovary banking and autotransplantation has been proposed as a method to avoid irreversible damage, yet no clinical method exists to keep whole ovaries viable until re ...

PROJECT ABSTRACT Advancing age is often accompanied by a decline of key neuromodulatory centers of the brain that support adaptive neuroplasticity. Deterioration of the underlying neurophysiology of the brain predisposes the individual to pathological and age-related cognitive decline. We propose to deploy a computerized cognitive training program (INHANCE) developed via two successful SBIR-funded ...

Project Summary/Abstract Advanced Medical Electronics Corporation and our partners propose to develop a Socially-Assistive Robot (SAR) system for persons with dementia (PWD),(mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimerandapos;s disease, or other dementias), who are living in assisted living facilities. The proposed system uses Augmented Intelligence (AI) to communicate with the PWD in natural language. T ...

Project Summary Our understanding of neuropsychiatric disorders is undergoing a paradigm shift away from simple models emphasizing neurotransmitter imbalance towards more sophisticated theories based on abnormalities in neural circuit function. This is especially important for understanding disorders like Schizophrenia and PTSD, which defy simple biochemical explanations, but are now known to invo ...

Project Summary This proposal builds upon the advances from the SBIR-Phase I program (R43GM123887), targeting the development of recombinant human MG53 (rhMG53), a novel tissue repair protein, as a topical therapeutic agent to facilitate healing of chronic wounds. Wound care represents a challenging problem to the public health, as no effective treatments for chronic non-healing wounds are availab ...

ABSTRACT: , Trans Women Connected: a mobile app delivered sexual health promotion program During the past two decades, the HIV epidemic has severely impacted transgender women in the U.S. According to the CDC persons have the highest HIV incidence of any risk group (56% of Black transgender women are living with HIV), and discrepancies between self-reported prevalence and HIV testing data indicate ...