We're grateful for all of the participants who've contributed to our research over the years, & we're proud of the Rehabilitation Research Registry we have created. The Registry gives patients and the community an opportunity to learn about our cutting-edge research studies. More info in our flyers.

The Brain Injury Functional Outcome Measure assesses global function after #msTBI. It allows measurement of graded functional impairment ranging from unconsciousness to resuming normal activities. https://rehabilitationresearch.jefferson.edu/innovations/brain-injury-functional-outcome-measure.html

Want to learn more about research at our Institute and hear from prominent scholars in the fields of #neuroscience and #neurorehabilitation? Check out our YouTube channel, and subscribe to stay up to date on what's new! https://www.youtube.com/@MossRehabResearch

Post-Traumatic Amnesia (#PTA) is a state of confusion brought on by physical and chemical changes in the brain after traumatic brain injury (#TBI). Our PTA Protocol describes specific actions for coordinated care by all team members Learn more here: https://ow.ly/Bf2b50XkYiS

Drs. Amanda Rabinowitz, Umesh Venkatesan & team evaluated the reproducibility of Resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) metrics in adults w/ & w/o #TBI, finding reliability was preserved after neurological injury, w/ certain networks showing the strongest consistency. https://ow.ly/fvbp50XkXwi

The Annual Innovation & Research Celebration was a great event showcasing process improvement, research, & innovation! @edwardsneurolab.bsky.social, @dramandar.bsky.social, & @sharonmantonucci.bsky.social were keynote speakers, & they enjoyed connecting with attendees & talking about our Institute.

Meet speech-language pathologist Kelly Horel! Kelly works in our Institute's Speech & Language Recovery Lab, where she contributes to important research on aphasia, word retrieval, & approaches to improve speech in individuals with #aphasia. 👩‍🔬 🧪 rehabilitationresearch.jefferson.edu/news/2025/sp...

Dr. Lyn Turkstra & peers sought to characterize social-legal discourse in adults with and without #TBI. Results identified risks of TBI-related communication deficits in legal contexts, warranting future research of the effects of TBI on intersections with legal systems. https://ow.ly/JnpV50XkWI8

Dr. John Whyte & colleagues describe the Physiatric Research Consulting Program (PRCP), designed to strengthen research capacity in academic Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) departments in this report, highlighting potential development and growth. 👉 https://ow.ly/xqzj50XfLqS

Dr. Dylan Edwards will be presenting a talk, "Where are we and where are we going?" in the "Non-Invasive Neuromodulation: Innovations and Future Perspectives in Neurofunctional," session @ #COBRAFIN in São Paulo on 11/20. Learn more here: https://ow.ly/mF5U50Xe9yT

Dr. Dylan Edwards, will be presenting a pre-conference workshop, "Advancing the Use of Non-Invasive Neuromodulation: Personalized and Individualized Treatment," @ the VIII Brazilian Congress of Neurofunctional Physiotherapy #COBRAFIN in São Paulo on 11/19. Learn more here: https://ow.ly/Vuus50Xe9jO

Access to care is a critical issue for people with #TBI, and many patients need long-term care. Dr. John Whyte will present in this session #ACRM2025 on "Improving Access to Post-acute Care for People with Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: Next Steps 1953" today at 1:15 pm. https://ow.ly/SAcN50XfKEG

Faculty Emeritus, John Whyte, MD, PhD, is a featured presenter during the "Improving Patient Engagement in Rehabilitation 1959" session at the ACRM | American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Conference in Chicago. Check out his presentation 10/30 at 12:00 pm. https://ow.ly/lPMB50XfKnE

Congratulations to Dr. Amanda Rabinowitz on her receipt of the Mitchell Rosenthal Award from the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM)! The Award was presented today during the #ACRM2025 Annual Meeting.

Dr. Amanda Rabinowitz will be presenting at the #ACRM2025 Annual Meeting on 10/28/25 from 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM. The symposium will cover her work with colleagues developing the ACRM Structured #TBI Interview & application of the ACRM Diagnostic Criteria in Research. https://ow.ly/6k3k50X9nbb

Mark your calendars for Dr. John Whyte's Plenary, "Better Rehabilitation Through Better Treatment Specification: The Growing Impact of the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System," on 10/28 @ #ACRM2025! 👉 acrm25.eventscribe.net/fsPopup.asp?... #rehabilitation #RTSS #neurorehabilitation

If you'll be in Chicago for the #ACRM Conference, check out Dr. John Whyte's presentation during the session "Clinical Implementation of Cognitive Rehabilitation Best Practices Using the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System 1914" on 10/29 @ 1:15 pm. https://ow.ly/zefm50XfJgw

Faculty Emeritus, John Whyte, MD, PhD, will present during the session "The Role of Enablement Theory in Rehabilitation Practice, Education, and Research 2557" at the ACRM | American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Conference on October 28th, 2:45-3:45 pm. https://ow.ly/8hac50XfIZU

Postdoctoral Fellow, Allie Tracey, PhD, will be presenting a poster at #ACRM titled "User Experiences of a Mobile Ecological Momentary Assessment Platform for Remote Concussion Symptom Monitoring." If you'll be in Chicago, make sure to visit her on 10/28 at 7:00 pm (Station 10).

Check out Dr. Amanda Rabinowitz's presentation, "IC20: Future Trends in Mobile Rehabilitation (mRehab): Designing and Implementing Technology-supported Interventions for Remote Rehabilitation" on 10/26, 8:30 am - 12:30 pm if you'll be @ #ACRM in Chicago next week. https://ow.ly/vOCM50XfI4a#ACRM

Clinical Research Coordinator, Shauna Zodrow, will present @ the Academy of Aphasia Conference in San Diego 10/26-10/28. Her poster, "Evaluating speech entrainment as a treatment for non-verbal individuals with aphasia: a case study" will be @ 9:50 am on Tues, 10/28. https://ow.ly/28ip50Xeaku

Institute Scientist, Marja-Liisa Mailend, PhD, will be presenting at the Academy of Aphasia Conference in San Diego 10/26-10/28. Her poster titled, "Speech entrainment practice in aphasia: efficacy and optimal training parameters" will be at 9:50 am on Tues, 10/28/25. https://ow.ly/naIV50Xeag9

Postdoc Yingxue Tian will present @ the Academy of Aphasia Conference in San Diego 10/26-10/28. Her talk, "Naming treatment in aphasia: How individual differences and error types predict response to retrieval practice and errorless learning" will be @ noon on Tues, 10/28. https://ow.ly/I2Yr50XeaaZ

Dr. Simon Thibault finished his postdoctoral fellowship at our Institute! Dr. Thibault has accepted a competitive postdoctoral fellowship in the Center for Research in Psychology and Neuroscience at Aix Marseille Université in France. Congratulations, Dr. Thibault!

We were thrilled to host Dr. John Medaglia for our latest Shrier Family Topics in #Rehabilitation Science Seminar! Dr. Medaglia is a postdoc alumnus from our Institute. In his talk, he shared exciting recent findings from his lab at Drexel University. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE79dtkoFE0

Research is instrumental in improving care for people with disorders of consciousness ( #DoC ) after #TBI. Dr. John Whyte discusses how research has impacted best practices for treating patients with DOC & policy surrounding rehabilitation services. https://ow.ly/rr1l50Xeq8p

Dr. Anna Krason has concluded her postdoctoral fellowship at our Institute! She has begun a new postdoc at the Research Foundation of the City University of New York in collaboration with the NSF AI Institute for Artificial and Natural Intelligence (ARNI). Congratulations, Dr. Krason!

It was wonderful to get our team together for our annual fall party yesterday! This event is a great opportunity for everyone to get to know new team members and enjoy quality time with colleagues. Thank you to everyone who attended!

John Whyte, MD, PhD, & colleagues recently published a statement highlighting achievements in the past 20 years for diagnostic distinctions, increased prognostic accuracy, & assessment strategies related to disorders of consciousness after severe brain injury. #TBI #DoC https://ow.ly/RwUV50X9GoL

Our Institute is a vibrant training environment for postdoctoral fellows, & former postdoc Dr. Charlene Lee shared more about her experience at the Institute & what she is working on now in this interview: https://rehabilitationresearch.jefferson.edu/news/2025/former-postdoc-charlene-lee.html

#ICYMI Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, Rachana Gangwani, PT, MS, PhD, presented for the Shrier Family Topics in Rehabilitation Science Lecture last month. Watch her lecture on Mechanistic and Neuroanatomic Bases of Disparity Between Arm Capacity and Use Post-Stroke here: https://ow.ly/uUbg50X9v3z

Dr. Amanda Rabinowitz will be presenting at the #ACRM2025 Annual Meeting on 10/28/25 from 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM. The symposium will cover her work with colleagues developing the ACRM Structured #TBI Interview & application of the ACRM Diagnostic Criteria in Research. https://ow.ly/6k3k50X9nbb

Congratulations to Postdoc, Dr. Allie Tracey, on receiving an Early Career Travel Scholarship Award to attend the 2025 ACRM Conference! Allie will present a poster on 10/28 at 7:00 pm in Chicago featuring work focused on remote #concussion symptom monitoring in college-aged athletes. #ACRM2025

Dr. Jaclyn Barcikowski is a treating #TBI physiatrist in the Drucker Brain Injury Center & Associate Program Director of the MossRehab/Einstein Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Residency Training Program. Read about her & her collaborative work w/ Dr. Amanda#TBIRabinowtiz. https://ow.ly/oRjK50X9lPk

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Propelled by NIH-funded trials, the Anger Self-Management Training Program (ASMT) is an evidence-based, 8-session, 1-to-1 psychoeducational treatment program designed to help manage problematic anger/irritability following #msTBI. https://ow.ly/q8hq50X7OyG#msTBI #psychoeducation #neurorehabilitation

As part of the Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems Collaborative, a new guidance on communicating about brain injury was developed for clinicians, researchers, policymakers, and people with lived experience. Key message: Brain injury doesn't define a person. It's just one part of who they are.

Thank you to everyone who came out to support Jefferson Moss-Magee Rehabilitation and our team, #ResearchRacers, at the 2025 Brain Injury Association of Pennsylvania's Race for Recovery! #BIAPA #ResearchRacers #BrainInjury #rehabilitation

Mark your calendars for Dr. John Whyte's Plenary, "Better Rehabilitation Through Better Treatment Specification: The Growing Impact of the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System," on 10/28 @ #ACRM2025! 👉 acrm25.eventscribe.net/fsPopup.asp?... #rehabilitation #RTSS #neurorehabilitation

Our Institute is #hiring! We're recruiting a part-time Administrative Coordinator at the Aphasia Center. Learn more about the position: https://jeffersonhealth.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ThomasJeffersonExternal/details/Admn-Coor-Aphasia-Center--Part-time-24--JMMR-Elkins-Park_REQ-0012807-1?q=aphasia

Integrating Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) — using #technology, such as social media, to engage with others — into #rehabilitation could benefit adolescents w/ acquired brain injury. New paper by Institute Scientist in Residence Dr. Lyn Turkstra & colleagues! www.publish.csiro.au/IB/IB25005

@aaronlwong.bsky.social @laurelbuxbaum.bsky.social & @sthibault.bsky.social found that incongruence between tool & hand motions may exacerbate competition between motions of the hand & tool. Resolving this competition is challenging for people with #LimbApraxia. 👉 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40925673/

Our team at Jefferson Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute brings together talented researchers, trainees, & administrators from diverse backgrounds to conduct world-class research in a supportive and collaborative environment. 👉 rehabilitationresearch.jefferson.edu/who-we-are.h...

Check out our blog post by @amandastherrien.bsky.social where she discusses how rehabilitation research can improve the lives of people with #Ataxia. 👉 Full article here: rehabilitationresearch.jefferson.edu/news/2025/re...

Check out our 2025 Annual Newsletter which showcases some of our exciting ongoing research, updates from the Institute, and other stories. rehabilitationresearch.jefferson.edu/content/dam/...

Tom Watanabe, MD, Clinical Director of the Moss TBIMS, recently published a review on the clinical use of alpha-2 receptor agonist medications in the treatment of #TBI sequelae, highlighting key considerations for clinicians & decision-making in patient care. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40845906/

Institute Faculty Emeriti, Drs. Tessa Hart & John Whyte, are authors on a new publication applying the Rehabilitation Treatment Specification System (RTSS) to better understand & plan complex behavioral interventions in cancer rehabilitation. 👉 Read it here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40837008/

Institute faculty, @oomayshh.bsky.social & colleagues recently published research using machine learning to better understand how life exposure factors (LEFs) influence memory performance in older adults. 👉 Check it out here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40832727/

Looking forward to working on this project, and grateful for the people at the NIH who are working hard to help support our trainees!

Congratulations to Postdoctoral Fellow, @jonathanwood603.bsky.social, & mentors @aaronlwong.bsky.social & @amandastherrien.bsky.social on receiving a prestigious NIH/NICHD F32 award for their project, “The role of subjective values and dopamine availability in incentive-based motor learning”!