Presenter: Dr. Dylan Edwards
Dr. Dylan Edwards and collaborators are using cutting-edge brain mapping techniques with transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to investigate motor recovery in patients with cortical and subcortical stroke who have motor deficits. They are applying advanced electric field modeling methods to study the precise muscle representation in the brain relative to the functional deficit of hemiparetic muscles, and assessing changes over time associated with functional recovery. This lecture will give an update on the work in progress, share lessons learned from their application of this novel approach, and discuss the potential impacts of this research on the field.
Dr. Dylan J. Edwards is the Nancy Wachtel Shrier Director of Jefferson Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, Director of the Human Motor Recovery Laboratory at the Institute, Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at The Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, and Adjunct Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the NeuroRehabilitation and Robotics Laboratory at Edith Cowan University. He is dedicated to translating basic science findings in neurologically healthy people to develop and evaluate novel, clinically-relevant approaches for neurological assessment and neurorehabilitation in stroke and spinal cord injury using non-invasive stimulation, neuromodulation, robotics, combinatorial therapies, neuroimaging, and telerehabilitation.
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