Our research is focused on neural plasticity within sensorimotor spinal and cortical circuits that mediate human motor control.

Collaborations & Funding

BASIC MECHANISMS OF MOTOR CORTICAL FUNCTION

Dr. Martin Gibala

– Department of Kinesiology, McMaster University

Expertise/interest: Exercise Physiology, Skeletal Muscle, Metabolism, Training Adaptations, Nutrition

Dr. Margaret Fahnestock

– Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences, McMaster University

Expertise/interest: Neurotrophin gene expression, regulation, signaling and trafficking with respect to Alzheimer’s disease, autism and peripheral nerve injury.

Dr. Michael Noseworthy

– Imaging Research Centre, St. Joseph’s Hospital

Expertise/interest: Tissue microstructure & metabolism, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy

Dr. Mark Tommerdahl

– Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, UNC and NC State

Expertise/interest: Somatosensory Cortical Dynamics, Neurocomputation in living neural networks

Dr. Mark Tarnopolsky (MD)

– Division of Pediatrics, Department of Medicine, McMaster University

Expertise/interest: Mitochondrial disease/function, neuromuscular disease

NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE

Dr. Robert Chen

– Krembil Research Institute, Toronto Western Hospital

Expertise/interest: Parkinson Disease, Motor Cortex, Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS), Dystonia, Plasticity, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), Electroencephalography (EEG), Neurophysiology

NEUROLOGICAL INJURY

Dr. Ning Jiang

– Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo

Expertise/interest: Biological Signal Processing, Intelligent Human-machine Interfaces (HMI), Advanced Prosthetic Control with Electromyography (EMG, Real Time Close-Loop Brain Computer Interface for Stroke Rehabilitation

Dr. Agnus Chmiel

– Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Department of Medicine, McMaster University

Expertise/interest: Musckuloskeletal injury, arthritis management, spasticity management, and electromyography

Dr. Jed A. Meltzer

– Department of Psychology, University of Toronto

Expertise/interest: Perception, Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience, Language, Neurolinguistics, Stroke, Aphasia, Rehab, fMRI, MEG

Dr. Harsha Shanthanna (MD)

– Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Anesthesia, McMaster University

Expertise/Interest: Management and treatment of neuropathic pain

ENGINEERING, MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS

Dr. Paul McNicholas

– Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University

Expertise/interest: Computational Statistics, Mixture Model-based Clustering and Classification

Dr. Zhen Gao

– W Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology, McMaster University

Expertise/interest: Automation Engineering Technology, Engineering Design, Health Technology

Dr. Martin V. Mohrenschildt

– Department of Computing and Software

Expertise/interest: Model Predictive Control, Signal Processing, Immersive Simulation, Sensors, Hybrid Systems