About

Our research is focused on understanding the immature brain and its response to injury with the goal of helping infants and children. Traumatic brain injury is the single most common cause of death and disability in children in the United States, and in many other countries as well. An infant’s brain is different from that of a grade-school child, which is different from that of an adolescent, and we are working to understand these differences and how they influence both response to injury and to repair and recovery.  Children who are injured may have lifetime problems which we don’t know yet how to prevent or help. Our work is aimed at learning how to better treat the millions of children with this and similar problems, now and in the future.