Neuromuscular Physiology Lab
The broad research area of the Human Motor Neuroscience Laboratory is human movement control with a focus on movement variability.
Although variability is a robust characteristic of our movements, it increases with aging and certain neurological diseases. The exacerbation of movement variability has serious functional implications, and thus our research attempts to:
- Better understand the neural mechanisms of movement variability
- Characterize the functional implications of exacerbated movement variability
- Develop innovative rehabilitation tools to reduce deleterious movement variability
Principal Investigator: Evangelos Christou, Ph.D.
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Research Highlights
- Determine the pathophysiology of impaired motor control in older adults and patients with spinocerebellar ataxia, essential tremor, and myotonic dystrophy type 1
- Understand how movement variability affect activities of daily living in older adults and patients with neurological disorders. We focus our efforts on driving and over ground walking.
- Develop technically innovative, engaging, and affordable intervention tools that can be used at home to reduce deleterious effects of movement variability
- Published in Journal of Neurophysiology, Journal of Gerontology, and Journal of Applied Physiology in the past few years
- Lab is funded by the NIH and AHA