Seed Grants

Scalp EEG signatures of pathological basal ganglia sleep activities in Parkinson’s disease

• Prof. Yuval Nir | Sagol School of Neuroscience, Gray Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tel Aviv University; Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
• Dr. Ido Strauss | Neurology & Neurosurgery, Gray Faculty of Medicine; Dept of Neurosurgery, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
  
  The proposed research has potential to promote a breakthrough by advancing a novel biomarker for early diagnosis, to track disease progression, and evaluate response to various treatments. Explore >>

Assessing the intuitivity and feasibility of a gait sonification algorithm in Parkinson’s Disease

• Dr. Noam Amir | Department of Communication Disorders, Gray Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences
• Prof. Meir Plotnik | Departmant of Physiology, Gray Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences; Center of Advanced Technologies in Rehabilitation, Sheba Medical Center
  
  Collaborators: Dr. Benedetta Heimler | Center of Advanced Technologies in Rehabilitation, Sheba Medical Center, Eitan Globerson | 
  
  This work may lay the foundations for a substantial advance in gait rehabilitation in PD (and beyond), ultimately leading to more comprehensive gait rehabilitation and to personalized gait interventions tailored to individually-determined gait parameter(s). Explore >>