Join us in celebrating Christopher Reeve’s legacy on his birthday with a BREATHE Watch Party of Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story on Wednesday, September 25 (7pm) at Regal Butler Town Center (3101 SW 35th Blvd, SW Deborah Butler Ct, Gainesville, FL 32608). Christopher Reeve’s journey as an advocate for spinal…
September is SCI Awareness Month! Join the BREATHE Center, Brooks Rehabilitation Clinical Research Center, and the SCI Health Research Partnership (SHARP) to celebrate and connect over SCI research with demos, dialogue, and delicious food! This co-hosted event will bring together trainees, clinicians, and community members across Brooks Rehabilitation and…
BREATHE Steering Committee member, Dr. Erica Dale, received funding for her project Effects of acute cannabis smoke exposure on respiration after cervical spinal cord injury in rats, from the Consortium for Medical Marijuana Clinical Outcomes Research Grants Program. This funding will allow her lab to start a…
Join us on for our upcoming Social & Science on Thursday, October 12 from 5:30-7:30pm at Cypress & Grove Brewing (1001 NW 4th St, Gainesville, FL 32601)! This session will feature Dr. Mehdi Ahmadian, incoming Gator NeuroScholar postdoc in the Mitchell Lab. He will present: Acute Intermittent Hypoxia: A Breath…
If you work in the spinal cord injury realm—performing research or providing clinical care—please join the BREATHE Center (SCI Core) for a Spinal Cord Injury Workshop on Friday, Dec 1 from 9 am – 5 pm at the Austin Cary Forest Campus. The workshop will involve a day of…
Dr. Sabhya Rana recently won the Postdoctoral Poster Prize at the 13th Annual Conference of the North Central Florida Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience. She presented her work on the use of Ampakines to restore breathing in a rodent model of spinal cord injury. Dr. Rana’s work…
Congratulations to BREATHE members, Drs. Gordon Mitchell & Emily Fox, for receiving a $3.6-million grant from DoD for their work using intermittent hypoxia to improve breathing in people with chronic spinal cord injuries.
For the last session of the Control of Breathing and Airway Defense (CoBAD) International Online Seminar Series featured Gordon Mitchell, PhD & Alex Marciante, PhD on Friday, July 8th at 3:00 pm ET. Their seminar is entitled: “Respiratory motor plasticity following acute intermittent hypoxia: the yin (serotonin) and the…
The Control of Breathing and Airway Defense (CoBAD) International Online Seminar Series featured Erica Dale, PhD & Elisa Gonzalez-Rothi, DPT, PhD on Friday, June 17th at 3:00 pm ET. Dr. Dale’s research focuses on neurostimulation and functional recovery of breathing capacity after spinal injury. Dr. Gonzalez-Rothi’s research focuses…
In a new rat-model study, BREATHE member, Dr. David Fuller and Dr. Sara Turner reported that hyperbaric oxygen therapy initiated shortly after a spinal cord injury aided in improving recovery. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy involves brief exposure to pressurized oxygen and is a well-established treatment for promoting wound healing and treating…
