BBVA Translational Research Chair
May 7, 2007
Prof. Pascual-Leone has been awarded one of six Chairs in Biomedicine by the BBVA Foundation in Spain to apply principles of neuromodulation and brain plasticity to the neurorehabilitation of traumatic brain injury. Traumatic Brain Injury is a major public health problem across human life span. Severe disability from TBI has an incidence rate estimated at 2%, and moderate disability at 4% per 100,000 inhabitants per year. There is therefore an urgent and ongoing need for better strategies to minimize the consequences of TBI and promote optimal functional recovery after brain injury. This BBVA Foundation Chair will provide an opportunity to establish in Spain Prof. Pascual-Leone¹s techniques and innovative approaches to modulate brain plasticity towards optimization of recovery of function after brain injury. The work will be conducted at The Institute Guttmann (www.guttmann.com), Spain’s leading hospital in the medical treatment, surgery and full rehabilitation of patients with spinal cord injury, acquired brain damage or any other serious neurological disability.