Neuromotor and Motor Disability Characterization
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Research Question
First approach: Is it possible (how) to characterize the physiological aetiology of neuromotor disorders by combining symptom-based severity assessment and medical signal analysis?
Inverse formulation: How do the rehabilitation treatments and approaches affect the cerebral plasticity to overcome (palliate) the neuromotor disorders?
Another formulation: How does the cerebral motor cortex reacts to neuromotor disorder rehabilitation treatment?
Project Summary
First approach: Neuromotor disorders cover a wide spectrum of pathologies, disabilities and conditions affecting the interaction between the cerebral motor cortex, the nervous tracts, the innervation of voluntary and involuntary muscles and the muscle functionality itself.
This project is intended to formulate a plausible set of hypotheses -and their corresponding empirical evidence- approaching the study of such disorders by the characterization of their aetiology and mechanisms to understand the physiology of each particular pathology/condition and, then, provide valuable clinical information to support diagnosis, severity assessment, treatment and prognosis.
Goals
Data Sources
Current
- Universidad Central Bioengineering Laboratory
- Movement analysis Lab. (BTS system)
- Biopack: EEG registering system
Collaborations
Universidad Manuela Beltrán
- Juanita Sánchez, MSc
- Andrea Vásquez, PhD
Universidad Nacional
- Prof. Nancy Landinez (physiotherapist)
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