CNT researchers are driven by a mission to improve the lives of people with neurological, mobility and sensory disorders through neural engineering research.
Challenge your students to come up with examples of each type of disorder that they think might be the focus of researchers working in sensorimotor neural engineering. Record the answers on a table, similar to the one below:
| Neurological Disorders | Mobility Disorders | Sensory Disorders |
| Parkinson’s disease | Limb loss, amputation | Hearing loss |
| Epilepsy, seizure disorders | paralysis | Deafness |
| Locked-in syndrome | spinal cord injury | Vision loss |
| Traumatic brain injury | paraplegia, quadriplegia | Meniere’s disease |
| Stroke | palsy | |
| Alzheimer’s disease | ||
| Multiple sclerosis |
The Neuroscience for Kids site has more information about neurological disorders.
Looking for lesson plans? Traumatic Brain Injury- A Neural Network Journey is a seven-lesson curriculum unit aimed at middle and high school students. You’ll also find background information on neuroanatomy, neuroscience and neural engineering. The lesson plans were developed in 2013 through the CNT’s Research Experience for Teachers program. Download them from our site.
Neurological Disorders Dominoes helps test students’ knowledge of neurological disorders.