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Robotic Wheelchair
Creating a robotic "smart" wheelchair that helps the human with driving, similar to emergency braking and parking assistance on cars.
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Assistive Robotic Arm
Making assistive robotic arms easier to control, by introducing robotics autonomy.
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Junior Competitive Sports Program
Competitive Junior Sports is ideal for youth seeking to develop their sports skills in wheelchair basketball, track and field, and wheelchair softball.
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Cycling Program
The Adaptive Cycling Program is offered year round—outdoors on Chicago's Lakefront Path in the summer and fall, and indoors on Wahoo trainers at the Fitness Center in the winter and spring.
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Spinal Cord Injury
See why our innovative, interdisciplinary approach to spinal cord injury rehabilitation has made us the #1 choice for patients worldwide for more than 60 years.
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Wheelchair Rugby
The Chicago Bears Wheelchair Rugby Team is a member of the U.S. Quad Rugby Association. Rugby combines activities of football, hockey and basketball.
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Golf
The AbilityLab Adapted Golf Program meets weekly from May to September and is available to all levels of players.
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Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago Unveils New AbilityLab
RIC will soon be a thing of the past. But that's not to say it's going away. It has a new name, a new location and a much larger, & a state-of-the-art facility.
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Executive Function and Social Cognition
Research covers decision making, reward process, reasoning, action planning, response inhibition, metacognition, social judgment & pro-social/empathic behavior.
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Neuroplasticity
In the Neuroplasticity laboratory, we are interested in examining the changes in neuroplasticity that follow neurocognitive and neurostimulation-based interventions in both healthy individuals and those with brain injuries.
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Neurostimulation
The Neurostimulation laboratory is currently pursuing multiple studies using various neurostimulation techniques, including transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and high-definition tDCS (HD-tDCS).
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Conference Schedule for Dr. Grafman
Dr. Grafman to speak at Traumatic Brain Injury Conference (2017), The Georgetown Conference on the Cognition of Belief, and at the Utah Neurotrauma Conference.
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