Dr. Jason Carmel's Motor Recovery Lab at Burke Medical Research Institute published a video in the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) demonstrating how they've used the Knob Supination Task with MotoTrak systems to study spinal cord injuries. The video is open-access, and you can check it out here to see the task in action:
Opti-Speech Clinical Trials at CHSC Featured on WKYC News
Dr. Jennell Vick's clinical trials using Opti-Speech at the Cleveland Hearing and Speech Center were featured in a news story on Cleveland's local station WKYC. The Opti-Speech clinical trials are supported by a Phase II SBIR grant from the NIDCD. If you live in or near Cleveland, OH or Dallas, TX and are interested in participating, you can contact Rebecca Mental at CHSC (for OH participants) or Holle Carey at Vulintus (for TX participants).
Vulintus Heads to San Diego for SfN 2016
NOVEMBER 2016 - Join us in San Diego at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2016 on November 13-16. We'll be showing off our MotoTrak forelimb testing systems at booth #3531. If you'd like to see MotoTrak data in action, here's a list of posters from labs currently using MotoTrak to study Stroke, Spinal Cord Injury, and Peripheral Nerve Injury.
At our booth you can pick up 1 of the 9 #PartnersInNeuroscience "Rodents on the Loose!" magnets. Take a picture of your complete collection and post it on Twitter or Instagram with #SfN16 and #PartnersInNeuroscience for a chance to win an iPad!
UPDATE: Morgan Coburn was the winner of the Partners In Neuroscience drawing!
MotoTrak Presented in Special InsideScientific Webinar Series
Vulintus' own Dr. Andrew Sloan and UT Dallas' Dr. Seth Hays will present MotoTrak, Vulintus' automated rodent forelimb assessment system. The presentation is part of a special webinar series, Animal Behavior Neuroscience, hosted by InsideScientific. Dr. Sloan will demonstrate typical training and testing protocols for both rats and mice. Dr. Hays will then review his research which has used MotoTrak to investigate neuroplasticity-enhancing therapies for motor dysfunction.
Opti-Speech Presented at the 2016 Motor Speech Conference in Newport Beach
Dr. Thomas Campbell will be presenting "Opti-Speech: A Visual Biofeedback System for Speech Treatment" and Dr. Jennell Vick will be presenting "Speech Motor Learning without Auditory Perceptual Tuning: An Opti-Speech Trial". Additionally, Vulintus' own Holle Carey will also be on-site to answer questions about Opti-Speech product development and to obtain valuable feedback related to new features.