Nicklaus Children’s Neuroscience Institute Rebrand

The Nicklaus Children’s Neuroscience Institute has a rich 45-year history of delivering world-class neurologic and neurosurgical care to children and young adults through leading edge treatment, research, surgical innovation, and compassionate, family-centered care. To reflect the institute’s growth into a globally-recognized leader, it has rebranded from the Brain Institute to the Neuroscience Institute – a name that conveys its deep commitment to advancing care and meeting the needs of children and families everywhere.

Empowering Families Facing a Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome (BWS) Diagnosis
If you have a child or adult family member with Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome, or BWS, then you know just how challenging it can be. To provide patients with BWS and their families with medical and emotional support, Nicklaus Children’s Hospital began hosting the Beckwith Wiedemann Syndrome (BWS) Patient & Family Conference.

Neural-Enabled Prosthetic Hand (NEPH) System Developed at FIU restores sensation to first human subject
The NEPH system, developed at Florida International University by Ranu Jung and her Adaptive Neural Systems Laboratory team, restores a sense of touch/grasp force and hand opening by stimulating sensory nerve fibers in the residual limb with fine wires implanted inside nerves. Implantation of the device was performed by Dr. Aaron Berger and his team from Nicklaus Children’s Hospital. Berger is a hand and peripheral nerve surgeon who holds an appointment in FIU’s Department of Biomedical Engineering. 

Miami Children's Hospital Performs First Nerve Repair Surgery Using Avance Nerve® Graft Technology
The Avance® Nerve Graft isa valuable new tool that is changing how the surgical reconstruction of injured brachial plexus nerves is approached. Dr. John A. I. Grossman used this new technology to repair a brachial plexus injury on a 6 month-old baby girl.