Faculty Mentors in the Interdisciplinary Training in Movement Disorders and Neurorestoration T32 Program

Neuromuscular mechanisms of motor output variability and movement accuracy

Motor control, aging, neuroplasticity and rehabilitation associated with spaceflight

Functional and structural brain deficits in movement disorders using DTI and fMRI

Efficacy of intervention programs for improving quality of life, neuromechanical control, & disease progression in Parkinson’s disease, dynamic stability during locomotor transitions in the elderly & PD

Advanced signal processing, methods for analysis of oscillatory neural networks, and multivariate neurobiological data

Biomechanics and neural control of human locomotion

Clinical diagnostics and therapy for neurological disorders using neural networks; electro-physiology, bioimaging

Neural engineering, device-tissue interfaces & neurostimulation

Hippocampal contributions to spatial memory

Apathy, depression and cognitive subtypes in Parkinson’s Disease

Health comorbidities, risky behavior, and neuroimaging

Cognitive subtypes in Parkinson’s disease; DTI & biomarkers; Post-operative cognitive change

Human genetics and molecular mechanisms of ataxia, mouse models of expansion protein repeats; ALS and ataxia

Treatment of movement disorders , brain stimulation effects on behavior, mood and cognition

Role of immune activation in dementias of the elderly (Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and taupoathies)

Neuroscience, genetics, alpha-synuclein and antibodies

Pathogenesis of addiction, neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders

Generating constitutive and inducible model systems for the study of proteins and cellular pathways

Role & regulation of neuroinflammatory & immune system responses in modulating the gene-environment interactions that determine risk for development & progression of neurodegenerative & neuropsychiatric disease

Identification of novel therapeutic approaches to neurodegenerative disease

Applying genetic analysis to complex neurologic disorders

Neuroplasticity and respiratory control

Neuroplasticity in respiratory motor control

MRS/MRI studies of muscle function in human and animal models; Use of gene transfer and exercise as therapeutic

Mechanisms of normal and disordered airway protection

Speech, breathing & swallowing in individuals with neurologic disease