Master’s Thesis Defense By Lisa Kogan

Post date: Apr 24, 2017 4:03:00 PM

Corticospinal Excitability During Locomotion in Humans Mechanical Engineering

Tuesday, April 25, 2017, 10:00 AM

201 Erma Byrd Biomedical Research Center (BMRC)

The coordination between signals from cortical structures and spinal segmental pathways responsible for the control of locomotion remains a contentious issue in human motor control. The signals are known to be integrated, but the nature of these neural calculations is unknown. To understand these interactions in humans, noninvasive cortical stimulation techniques can be combined with detailed analyses of muscle activity patterns in locomotor tasks to test the relationship between corticospinal inputs and the forward velocity of each limb.