Peter Levine is a research consultant, licensed physical therapist assistant and co-director of SynapsTogether, LLC, dedicated to finding and reporting on the best systems for driving cortical plasticity. He is a consultant for the The Neuromotor Recovery and Rehabilitation Laboratory (NmRRL), a premier center for treatment of motor deficits caused by neurological disabilities. He has been involved in stroke-specific rehabilitation research for more than a decade, is the co-developer of modified constraint-induced therapy (mCIT), and is a former Research Associate at both the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Cincinnati Academic Medical Center and the Human Performance & Motion Analysis Laboratory at Kessler Rehabilitation Research and Education Corporation, the research arm of the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation.
Mr. Levine has co-authored more than 60 articles and abstracts published in peer-reviewed journals including Stroke, the American Journal of Occupational Therapy, Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, Physical Therapy, Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation. He is the author of the best-selling book Stronger After Stroke beloved by stroke and TBI survivors alike for its easily understandable and scientifically accurate information on how to achieve optimal rehabilitation and writes a monthly column on stroke recovery in Advance for Physical Therapists. Mr. Levine is an experienced program developer who has produced and presented training courses and seminars nationally on stroke rehabilitation and neuroplasticity. He received his degree in communications from George Mason University and his degree as a physical therapist assistant from Union County College.