Research into the role of the brain and mind in chronic pain
MotorImpairment Blog
- Measuring upper extremity function across the adult lifespanAs we age, we generally experience a progressive decline in the ability to use our arms and hands for normal daily activities such as using cutlery to cut food, brushing our teeth and buttoning up a shirt (Shumway-Cook & Woollacott, 2016). The ability to complete everyday activities with our upper extremities relies on a complex […]
- Translating walking parameters into meaningful biomarkers for benchmarking pathological movement behaviourWalking is regulated and coordinated through complex control mechanisms within the human sensory motor system, allowing individuals to adapt to both internal and external challenges and perturbations (Full et al., 2002). During this regulation to achieve stable walking, natural fluctuations (i.e. movement variability) are present between strides in both the temporal (e.g. stride interval) and […]
Here is fearfully and wonderfully complex for yer
We have just stumbled across a paper that is very intriguing if you are not up with this tricky little evolutionary twist. Tim Bruckner and colleagues at University of California Irvine and Berkeley, have reported that the odds of a male fetus dying - called the 'fetal death sex ratio' - were increased above the expected odds during September 2001. … [Read more...]