Faculty Mentors- NMPT

Motor control, motor disorders, neurological disorders, brain structure and function

Muscle plasticity, Muscular Dystrophy, IGF-1 for muscle therapeutics

Circadian rhythms, muscle biology, molecular blocks, muscle health

Motor control, aging, neuroplasticity and rehabilitation associated with spaceflight

Muscle atrophy and regeneration, mechanical ventilation, oxidative stress and free radicals

Cell based therapies, neural engineering, biomaterials, nerve regeneration, spinal cord injury

Cognitive and motor learning, stroke, neurorehabilitation, Traumatic Brain Injury

Neural interfaces for treatment in neurological injury and disease, implantable devices, brain-machine interface

Brain machine interface, neural integration and coordination in sensorimotor systems

Muscular dystrophies, Pompe disease, gene transfer and stem cell therapies, pediatric clinical trials

Neural plasticity, memory, aging

Movement disorders treatment, brain stimulation effects on cognition, behavior, and mood; basal ganglia

Therapeutic approaches to neurodegenerative disease

Magnetic resonance imaging, muscle damage, stem cell therapies, gene transfer, muscular dystrophies, muscle atrophy and regeneration

Circadian rhythms, muscle biology, molecular blocks, muscle health

Respiratory physiology, respiratory muscle training to improve breathing, muscle atrophy

Aging and neuromuscular control of movement

Neuroplasticity, spinal cord injury, control of breathing, neurophysiology and respiratory physiology

Muscle pathology, skeletal muscle damage, neuro-muscular disease, muscular dystrophy, Duchenne Myotonic Dystrophy, exercise, MRI, functional mobility & rehabilitation

Stroke, motor control, rehabilitation, clinical trials

Spinal cord injury, neuroplasticity, hypoxia based therapies, clinical trials

Neuroplasticity, spinal cord injury, hypoxia-based therapies, neurophysiology and respiratory physiology

Muscle atrophy regeneration, magnetic resonance imaging, muscular dystrophies, pediatrics, muscle damage

Musculoskeletal pain, orthopedic physical therapy, biomechanics, muscle damage

Muscular dystrophies, muscle plasticity, clinical trials

Mechanisms of swallowing dysfunction, rehabilitation of dysphagia, ALS, clinical trials

Mechanisms of airway protection, swallowing, cough, rehabilitation