[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 3]
[House]
[Pages 3685-3686]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  CELEBRATING BRAIN SCIENCE AWARENESS WEEK AND NATIONAL BRAIN INJURY 
                            AWARENESS MONTH

  (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, March is National Brain Injury 
Awareness Month, and this week also marks Brain Science Awareness Week, 
and I am very proud of the amazing advances in neuroscience research 
that are taking place in my district of south Florida.
  The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, working in concert with the 
University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine, is at the forefront of 
understanding traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries and how they can 
best be treated. Project investigators are now beginning to experiment 
with transplanting

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patients' own nerve cells to enhance recovery following paralysis. This 
brave work has never been more important, especially for our patriots, 
our military men and women, as they return home from combat and support 
missions abroad.
  Thanks to the brain research happening in Miami and elsewhere, we 
have never been closer to a cure.

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