Bio-X Bioengineering Graduate Fellowships 2004

Adam Grossman
(Professors T. Sanger, S. Delp and K. Shenoy)

Adam will study children with severe movement disorders in order to generate hypotheses as to the biological cause for their disorders.  He will collect data from eachchild—ranging from simple MRI and CT scans to more complex kinesthetic analyses.  The data will help shed light on the specific locations in the brain that may be malfunctioning.  Using this information, Adam will design further experiments to test these hypotheses and provide insight for better treatments and potential cures for these diseases.  In particular, Adam is interested in determining how and why deep brain stimulation is an effective treatment for some dystonic children and what parameters of the stimulation can be adapted to optimize the benefits of DBS in these children.