Improving Outcomes Through Ongoing Research
When you choose the Movement Disorders Clinic at Cincinnati Children’s, you can take comfort in knowing your child will receive safe, evidence-based care.
The providers who care for your child are also researchers. We routinely lead studies designed to improve our understanding of movement disorders, including what causes them and who’s at risk. And we take part in clinical trials that let patients try promising new treatments before they’re widely available.
Why is this important? Because our research findings could pave the way for better diagnostic tools—and more effective treatment options.
Some of the questions our researchers are working to answer include:
- What makes brains produce tics? Are the brain circuits involved in movement or sensation “wired” differently among different people? And how can we modify abnormal wiring?
- Why do many children with tics also have attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and/or obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)? And how are these conditions related to individual brain biology?
- Tourette syndrome runs in families. What are the genes that cause it?
- How can we improve symptoms in children with dystonia? For those who may benefit from deep brain stimulation, or DBS, can we predict the most effective ways to program their device?
- Can emerging new treatments improve function and outcomes among children with rare neurogenetic diseases?
