PARC Webinar Series - 2024

Monday March 4, 2024: Large scale virtual reality systems for pediatric rehabilitation: State of the art or a white elephant?

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Greetings and Overview

Dr. Simon-Henri Schless (moderator), ​ Motion analysis and biofeedback laboratory and PARC PI, The Helmsley Pediatric & Adolescent Rehabilitation Research Center, ALYN Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel

Large scale VR (GRAIL) in pediatric rehabilitation: a puzzle of opportunity

Dr. Emilia Biffi, IRCCS E. Medea, Associazione La Nostra Famiglia, Bosisio Parini 

Clinical integration of the GRAIL in the pediatric setting

Dr. Simon-Henri Schless (moderator), ​ Motion analysis and biofeedback laboratory and PARC PI, The Helmsley Pediatric & Adolescent Rehabilitation Research Center, ALYN Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel

Can the use of the GRAIL improve gait function in children with a brain injury?

Dr. Gilad Sorek, Senior research assistant, The Helmsley Pediatric & Adolescent Rehabilitation Research Center, ALYN Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel and Post-doctoral fellow, School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Tuesday February 6, 2024: Associations between Sensory and Emotional Pain: Using virtual reality to alleviate pediatric pain and anxiety

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Moderated by Dr. Neta Yitzhak

The experience of pain and emotion – A meeting of body, brain, and mind Dr. Gadi Gilam, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Head of the tSCAN lab (translational Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience); Institute of Biomedical and Oral Research, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Using Virtual reality distraction to reduce fear and pain of children during burn wound care Prof. Hunter Hoffman, Ph.D., Director of the Virtual Reality Research Center at the Human Photonics Lab and Dept. of Psychology,  Univ. of Washington, Seattle, USA in collaboration with Dept of Anesthesiology and Pain Management; Faculty of a Harvard Medical School CME course entitled Pediatric Sedation

 

Monday January 15, 2024: Electroencephalography (EEG): A window into the mind?

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Moderated by Prof. Tamar Weiss

Attention research using EEG Prof. Elana Zion-Golumbic, Head, Human Neural Dynamics and Cognition Lab, Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

EEG:  A window into understanding Neuro-Psychiatric disorders Dr. Felix Benninger, MD, Deputy Director Department of Neurology, Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikva & Senior Lecturer and Head of the Laboratory of Clinical Neuroscience, Felsenstein Medical Research Center, University of Tel Aviv; Dr. Oded Shor, PhD, post-doctoral fellow, Dept. of Neurology, Rabin Medical Center, Petach Tikva, Israel

Can EEG follow up improve the treatment of acute brain injury? Dr. Keren Politi, MD, Head, Pediatric Neurological Services, ALYN Hospital; PI, Helmsley Pediatric & Adolescent Rehabilitation Research Center, Jerusalem, Israel