Motor Systems

 

Tuan Bui

spinal cord circuitry, central pattern generators, computational modeling of healthy and pathological motor activity

Simon Chen

In vivo calcium imaging, motor learning and stroke recovery, therapeutic strategies that counter the neural circuit dysfunctions underlying brain disorders, molecular mechanisms of motor learning

Diane Lagace

Mechanisms that produce new neurons (neurogenesis) in the adult brain and to determine their functional role in the healthy and pathological brain. Birth of functional cells post-stroke.

John Lewis

Experimental and theoretical analysis of feedback in neural networks for sensory processing and motor control

Andre Longtin

Modeling of eye movements, reflexes, posture control, sensori-motor integration.

Greg Silasi

movement metrics, brain mapping, stroke recovery, Identifying effective therapeutic stimulation targets following perinatal stroke.

Heidi Sveistrup

motor learning in infants, movement rehabilitation in teenagers and adults following concussion, and movement support in the elderly population