Institute for Rehabilitation, Transition and Palliative Care of Neurologically Ill Children
Research projects
Main Projects
For more detailed information on the following research projects, please visit the download section.
- Spinal surgery and neuropediatrics - Development of treatment concepts for neurologically ill children with spinal deformities, and their transition to adulthood.
Project leader: Dr. Mostafa Mosafer - Personalized therapy for rare childhood epilepsies
(Network Therapy Rare Epilepsies - Study Group NETRE)
Project leader: Dr. Celina von Stülpnagel-Steinbeis - Rehabilitation, long-term outcomes with transition, and quality of life (QoL) for children with prolonged consciousness disorders
Project Leader: Dr. Celina von Stülpnagel-Steinbeis - Long-term outcomes and transition in children with acquired brain injuries (e.g., stroke, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, herpes encephalitis)
Project leader: Dr. Celina von Stülpnagel-Steinbeis - Long-term outcomes and transition in genetically-based epilepsy disorders (e.g., Rett, Fragile X, Angelman, Dravet, Mowat-Wilson, Coffin-Siris, Nicolaides-Baraitser syndromes)
Project leader: Dr. Celina von Stülpnagel-Steinbeis - Long-term outcomes and transition after childhood epilepsy surgery
Project leader: Dr. Manfred Kudernatsch - Animal-assisted therapies and interventions in neuropediatrics
Project leader: Dr. Karin Hediger - Pediatric neuroendocrinology
Project leader: Priv.-Doz. Dr. Markus Rauchenzauner, MSc - Pediatric cardiology and neuropediatrics
Project leader: Dr. Milka Pringsheim - Therapy-resistant childhood epilepsies: new treatment methods
Project leader: Dr. Milka Pringsheim - Neuropediatric rehabilitation: Patient-reported outcome measures
Project leader: Dr. Steffen Berweck - APPROACH (Active PaRametrizable Open-source Articular orthesis for CHildren)
Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Herbert Plischke, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Wagner - Calcium channel disorders working group (AKKKE)
Project leader: Dr. Cornelia Betzler - Translational animal models: Neurological disorders (especially epilepsy, movement disorders) in dogs and children
Project leader: Prof. Dr. Andrea Fischer