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Cheryl Carrico is a rehabilitation neuroscience researcher whose work sits at the intersection of neuromodulation, motor recovery, and advanced locomotor training technologies. Her research focuses primarily on optimizing rehabilitation strategies for individuals with neurological injuries, particularly stroke and spinal cord injury (SCI), by combining brain and spinal cord stimulation techniques with robotic-assisted movement therapies. Carrico's most influential contribution — garnering 80 citations — investigates whether pairing transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) with robot-assisted gait orthosis training can produce synergistic benefits in incomplete SCI recovery, a question that was largely unexplored at the time. Her broader body of work systematically examines how variables such as training speed and stimulation timing can meaningfully shape neuroplastic outcomes. Her 2016 proof-of-concept study on neuromodulation timing after stroke reflects her commitment to translating mechanistic neuroscience into clinically actionable rehabilitation protocols, while her case study exploring transvertebral direct current stimulation paired with locomotor training opened new avenues for non-invasive spinal cord intervention. Collectively, her research advances a critical principle in modern neurorehabilitation: that strategic combination and sequencing of interventions — rather than any single technique in isolation — may hold the key to maximizing functional recovery after devastating neurological injury.