Impact of our Research

We have been involved in studies of medications to try to treat these conditions as well as studies of other kinds of interventions to see if they can help, including neuromodulation technologies (e.g., transcranial magnetic stimulation, transcranial alternating current stimulation, and gamma frequency sensory stimulation) and speech-language therapy interventions. Although none of these have been proven to be helpful yet, we continue to do our own work in this area and collaborate with a number of investigators locally and internationally to try to develop treatments of the future.

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