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The Institute for Neurological Disorders (IND) brings together six disease research areas, creating synergy between scientists and clinicians and accelerating the progress of medical research from discovery to application.
The development and expansion of these programs will position scientists to develop new prevention strategies, new diagnostics and new treatments ultimately delivered to healthcare providers and the community.
The IND will unite the following six divisions:
- Brain Injury and Repair will focus on stroke, traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury with the goal of finding new ways to improve the survival of brain tissue, promote repair of neural circuits and restore function.
- Neuromuscular and Movement Disorders will include research focusing on Parkinson’s disease, muscular dystrophy and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease.
- Neurodegenerative Disorders will study the mechanisms behind disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, cerebral palsy, ALS and multiple sclerosis in hopes of developing new therapeutic strategies.
- Hearing and Equilibrium Disorders will address a key concern of an aging population and capitalize on KU’s lauded explorations in the fields of hearing loss, tinnitus and balance disorders.
- Women’s Pain Disorders will investigate how nerve cells transmit signals to the brain, examine genetic predispositions to pain and research pharmacological treatments of fibromyalgia, pelvic pain, complex regional pain syndrome, endometriosis and migraine headaches.
- Cognitive and Behavioral Health will examine how the normal brain processes information leading to appropriate behavior and how this processing may lead to addictions and impulsive behaviors such as gambling, overeating or aggression.
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