BIRMINGHAM, AL — Next week’s edition of “CBS Sunday Morning” is scheduled to feature neuroscience research conducted at UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham).

The segment, slated to air at 8 a.m. CST on January 15, is on brain plasticity, referring to the brain’s ability to recover or “rewire” itself following traumatic injury. The television news program will examine constraint-induced movement therapy (CI therapy), pioneered by UAB neuroscientist Edward Taub, Ph.D., a professor in the department of psychology.

CI Therapy was originally developed to help rehabilitate patients following stroke. Over the years, it has proven to be highly effective in restoring movement to the affected arms or legs of stroke patients. Taub also is investigating other conditions that may benefit from CI therapy, including traumatic brain injury, hip fracture and cerebral palsy.

A CBS video crew spent nearly a week at UAB last summer producing the segment, which will feature interviews with Taub and several patients undergoing rehabilitation research in his laboratory.

In 2001, UAB established the world’s first clinic solely to make CI therapy, also called Taub Therapy, available to stroke patients. Clinic information is available at www.uab.edu/citherapy/.