James Walton
West Virginia University, WV·Neuroscience
Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability in the United States, and a heavy health burden in West Virginia. Many survivors live with lasting fatigue and with problems in thinking, mood, sensation and movement.
- Fields
Neuroscience
Psychology
Medicine & Clinical Research
- Topics
stroke
rodent behavior
behavioral neuroscience
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Jul 2030
What they work on
- Support basic and translational stroke research by providing rodent behavioral testing, design and analysis expertise to evaluate how well new treatments preserve or restore brain function after stroke.
- Integrate brain imaging in living animals and neural network analysis with behavioral assessment, so neural activity and behavior can be measured at the same time.
- Build long-term sustainability through user fees and a voucher program, and extend services to investigators at other West Virginia institutions.
More about the research
Rodent models of stroke help researchers learn how brain damage causes these problems and whether new treatments preserve or restore function. However, behavioral testing requires costly equipment and specialized expertise.
Why it matters
Stroke survivors, who often face lasting fatigue and problems with thinking, mood and movement, may eventually benefit from this facility. Rigorous rodent behavioral testing, paired with brain imaging, can help researchers judge whether new stroke treatments preserve or restore brain function. This could speed the testing of therapies.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
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University of Iowa, IA·Medicine & Clinical Research
Provide cancer researchers with high-speed cell sorting, multi-parameter analysis and purification of specific cell subsets for basic and translational studies at the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Mark Goldberg
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, TX·Neuroscience
Test whether REST, a protein that silences neural growth genes, limits motor recovery after stroke by selectively inactivating it in motor cortex neurons of transgenic mice using viral vectors.
Paul George
Stanford University, CA·Biomedical Engineering
Determine how electrically stimulated neural stem cell transplants delivered on ElectricStem conductive polymer scaffolds recruit and alter the brain's own stem cells after stroke in rodents.
The school
West Virginia University: 15 labs on PI Pages, $259M a year on research, 201 research doctorates a year.
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