Papers
31
Total Citations
879
H-Index
15
About
Adam Kirton is a pediatric neurologist and neuroscientist whose research sits at the intersection of perinatal stroke, cerebral palsy, and non-invasive brain stimulation in the developing brain. His work has fundamentally advanced our understanding of how early brain injury shapes motor and sensory function in children, and how emerging technologies can both measure and modulate these effects. Kirton is perhaps best known for establishing the safety and tolerability of transcranial magnetic and direct current stimulation in pediatric populations, drawing on over 3.5 million stimulations to provide landmark evidence (163 citations) that has helped open the field to younger patients. His pioneering use of robotic technologies to objectively quantify proprioceptive and kinesthetic deficits in children with hemiparetic cerebral palsy secondary to perinatal stroke has transformed how sensory impairment is understood and assessed — work cited extensively across multiple studies. By integrating diffusion tractography, resting-state fMRI, and robotic outcome measures, Kirton's group has mapped the structural and functional underpinnings of developmental plasticity following perinatal stroke. His investigations into transcranial magnetic stimulation for Tourette syndrome further demonstrate the breadth of his therapeutic ambitions. Collectively, Kirton's research has reshaped pediatric neurorehabilitation, offering children with early brain injury new pathways toward better-defined and more targeted interventions.
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- 3Perinatal stroke: mapping and modulating developmental plasticity70 citations · 2021
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- 5Robotic Quantification of Position Sense in Children With Perinatal Stroke66 citations · 2016
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- 9Robotic TMS mapping of motor cortex in the developing brain39 citations · 2018
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