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Toolbox Overview

Recent Publications

 

View / download summary document with list of instruments  for NIH  Toolbox 

 

Testing Underway of Neurological, Behavioral Tools for NIH Toolbox               

Read full story NIH Blueprintprint for Neuroscience Research

 

 Toolbox Newsletter, Spring 2010

Overview of the NIH Toolbox Working Groups

 

Make Sure You Measure Up

 Miller, K. (2009) Make Sure You Measure Up- Part III of IV. The Quarterly Report. 45 (1), 12-15.

Reproduced with permission of the Home Health Section - APTA.

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 Related Projects

NIH Challenge Grants in Health and Science Research

 Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC)

Validating the NIH Toolbox in the Acute Neurorehabilitation Setting Principal Investigator: Victor William Mark, PhD   - University of Alabama – Birmingham                   

 

Enhancing the NIH Toolbox’s Accessibility and Usability to Support the Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Health Research Principal Investigator: Susan Magasi, PhD - Northwestern University

 

Validating New NIH Clinical Tools in Parkinson's Disease With/Without Depression

Principal Investigator: Mustafa M. Husain, MD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center 

 

Validation of New Measures of Cognitive Function and Performance in Individuals with Stroke, SCI, and TBI

Principal Investigator:  David Tulskey, PhD - Kessler Foundation Research Center

Creating a Pediatric Imaging-Genomics Data Resource

Principal Investigator: Terry L. Jernigan, PhD - University of California - San Diego 

 

Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC)  Program Director & Principal Investigator: Allen Heinemann, Ph.D., Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago

“Grand Opportunities", the "GO" Grants Program

 

GENORM: Collection of Genotypic Data for the NIH Toolbox Norming Sample
Principal Investigator: Richard Gershon, PhD – Northwestern University

 

 Toolbox News

SummaryFilter
Toolbox Symposium at American Congress for Rehabilitation Medicine- American Society of Neurorehabilitation ConferenceUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).

Unveiling the NIH Toolbox: Instrument Development, Validation, Demonstration, and Implications for Disability and Rehabilitation Research. ACRM Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada - October 21, 2010 Link to conference details  Susan Magasi, PhD, David Tulsky, PhD, Richard Bohannon, PT, DPT, EdD, Richard Gershon, PhD, Victor W. Mark, MD, Rose Marie Rine, PT, PhD

Toolbox session at American Public Health Association Annual MeetingUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
NIH Toolbox For Neurological and Behavioral Function session at American Public Health Association meeting,  November 8, 4:30-6:00PM
Link to conference details Sam Korper, PhD, MPH Panelists: Richard Gershon, PhD, Jennifer Beaumont, MS and Howard J. Hoffman, MA. Discussant: Robert B. Wallace, MD, MSc
Presentation at American Physical Therapy Association Conference receives Recognition of Excellence AwardUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).

Recent Toolbox presentation/abstract, A New Portable and Cost-effective Tool to Screen Vestibular Function: DVA for the NIH Toolbox, presented by Rose Marie Rine, PT, PhD received the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) 2010 Annual Conference and Exhibition Abstract Recognition of Excellence Award. 

The PT 2010 APTA Annual Conference Program Committee recognized only four abstracts, out of more than 1,000, that best represent the peer-review criteria and the APTA Vision Sentence and Vision Statement for Physical Therapy 2020

NIH Toolbox Pediatric Option Approved for FundingUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
We are pleased to report that the NIH Directors who make up the Neuroscience Blueprint have approved funding the Toolbox “Pediatric Option.” Therefore we are “full speed ahead” on the development, validation and norming of instruments for children as young as 3 years of age. We have been presented with a truly exciting opportunity to demonstrate the validity of these efforts in pediatric populations and look forward to expanding our focus on this project. 
 
 

 Comments and questions

We invite your comments and questions about the NIH Toolbox project 
  

 Principal Investigator

Richard Gershon, PhD, is Associate Chairman, Department of Medical Social Sciences, and faculty member, Department of Psychology, Northwestern University. Dr. Gershon is a leading expert in the application of Item Response Theory (IRT) in individualized and large scale assessments. He has developed item banks and Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT) for educational, clinical, and health applications - including cognitive, emotional, and motor applications.  He is currently principal investigator on the NIH Toolbox.  He is also co-investigator and measurement development expert on each of the following projects: NINDS sponsored project “Quality of Life Outcomes in Neurological Disorders” (Neuro-QoL), NIH Roadmap project “Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) and the cancer-specific supplement, plus several smaller projects.Email: gershon@northwestern.edu

 Research Sites

Audiology Incorporated
Emory University
Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research & Education Corp.
Monell Chemical Senses Center
National Opinion Research Center (NORC)
NorthShore University HealthSystem Research Institute
Northwestern University-Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center
Northwestern University-Department of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University-School of Communication
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
Temple University
University of California-Los Angeles
University of Connecticut
University of Kansas Medical School-Research Institute
University of Minnesota-Institute of Child Development
University of North Florida
University of Pittsburgh
University of Southern California-Keck School of Medicine
University of Washington
Westat, Inc.
 
 
National Institute of Child Health & Human Development National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine National Institutes of Health National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences National Eye Institute National Institute of Aging National Institute of Mental Health National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism National Institute of Drug Abuse The Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research
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