Marcie Bockbrader Browse All Authors Top 7 quotes by Marcie Bockbrader Theoretically it seems possible, but until we test… we just don’t know, [After a year] the spontaneous recovery period from stroke is essentially over, so if we could reinstitute a state of being more receptive through therapies to drive plasticity, that would improve function and drive recovery. Marcie Bockbrader health From my point of view as a clinician, that’s what’s important— what we do in terms of man on the street, can they get this to help them get better? We want to make it more widely available. Marcie Bockbrader health This imbalance actually prevents— to some extent and to some people— the recovery of function on the injured side. Marcie Bockbrader health Everybody benefits, whether or not there’s added benefit from brain stimulation. That’s a bonus. Marcie Bockbrader health What this would tell us is if the brain stimulation is working more than just therapy alone. Marcie Bockbrader health We can get something like 2 millimeter accuracy when we’re delivering 900 stimulation pulses over the course of 15 minutes, so it’s a 3D targeting within the brain based on the individual patient’s motor area for their hand. Marcie Bockbrader health I also see patients with traumatic brain injury and the protocols are similar across brain injury types…. So you can apply some of the technology to problems that result from brain injuries of different types. Marcie Bockbrader health
