In the “Open Streets” series hosted by the city of Boston, Boston neighborhoods are closed off to traffic and pedestrians can explore activities run by various community organizations! This year, we challenged families to the “box and box challenge.” This clinical assessment tool is a fun way to compare hand use between hands!
Play to Thrive is an annual event hosted by the Pediatric Stroke Council from MassGeneral Hospital for Children and Young Genetic Stroke Alliance. We loved sharing some of our favorite fine motor activities are are very grateful to have spent the day with other labs and organizations supporting the CP community. It was so neat […]
Check out this sneak peek at a few of our snacks and prizes for an exciting new hand and brain use study! We welcome children ages 6-17 into the DEMR Lab this summer to join!
Check out this new publication by our PhD students, lab manager, and principal investigator! Kim, H., Kelly, M., Su, X., & Ferre, C. (2025). Transcranial direct current stimulation and motor function in children with cerebral palsy: A systematic review and meta‐analysis. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology. doi: 10.1111/dmcn.16365.
We had so much fun tabling at Framingham State University’s Earth Day-themed event, Science on State Street! The theme of our table was “Grow your brain garden!” Just like gardens need water and sunlight to blossom, your brain needs rest, movement, and nutrients to grow. Visitors at our table tried out movement, sensory, and problem-solving […]
When children ages 6-18 visit our lab, they receive their “DEMR Research Ranger” passport! Participants earn a brain stamp on each page to mark their accomplishments at locations like “Board Game Beach” and “Block Boulevard.” Each stop along the journey is explained in child-friendly language, of course!
At this fun community event, we got to teach about the brain, connect with other science lovers, boggle minds with optical illusions, and teach about hand dominance with the box and blocks challenge!
Evan delivered a talk titled “Bimanual skills during infancy” at the AACPDM conference!
Xiwen and Evan presented a poster about one of our current studies for infants 2 to 12 months old!
The Institutional Review Board recently approved a new study protocol titled “Multimodal Characterization of Brain Organization and Hand Function in Children with Cerebral Palsy.” The purpose of this research study is to understand how pathways in the brain that control the hands/arms are organized, and how these patterns relate to how children use their hands/arms […]