News Archive from 2012
December 12, 2012
Congratulations to Alyssa and Matheus on recently winning scholarships! Alyssa was awarded the Ivy A Thomson and William A Thomson Graduate Scholarship for outstanding academic performance in a graduate program. Matheus won funding from the Caldo Consortium as part of their Science Without Borders program. He has also earned a renewal for his Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship for continued performance.
October 1, 2012
Alyssa, Matheus, and Naomi went to Kananaskis to attend this year's Alberta Motor Control "Neurohike".
September 20, 2012
Paper accepted! Joanna's paper entitled: "Depression and recovery of reflex transmission during electrical stimulation after spinal cord injury" has been accepted for publication in an upcoming edition of Clinical Neurophysiology.
September 13, 2012
Austin, Alyssa, Matheus and Yoshi went to Canmore and Banff to attend reCON, our faculty's annual convention for graduate student and staff, and the IFESS conference, respectively. Dave joined the group for IFESS. This year's IFESS theme is "Smart Machines – Neural Evolution".
August 12, 2012
Paper accepted! Cam's paper entitled: "Loss of short-latency afferent inhibition and emergence of afferent facilitation following neuromuscular electrical stimulation" has been accepted for publication in an upcoming edition of Neuroscience Letters.
August 4, 2012
We have returned from Australia! Everyone is exhausted from three weeks of travelling which included attendance of two conferences. We were in Brisbane to attend the ISEK 2012 Biennial Congress and then in Sydney for the International Motoneuron Meeting. We had fun presenting posters and giving talks. We will post some pictures from the trip in and upcoming update.
July 13, 2012
Paper accepted! Olle's paper entitled: "Changes in spinal but not cortical excitability following combined electrical stimulation of the tibial nerve and voluntary plantar-flexion." is scheduled for publication in volume 222, issue 1-2 of Experimental Brain Research.
July 12, 2012
Congratulations Yoshi! Yoshi has successfully defended her Master's thesis. She will continue to work in the lab to oversee research.
June 15, 2012
Today we were visited by Mr. MacDougall's fifth grade class from St. Pius X. A great time was had by all experimenting with neurocscience and making more "muscle music".
See pictures from the event. We were delighted when we were presented with drawings from the visit.
May 4, 2012
Another paper accepted! Austin's paper entitled: "Motor unit recruitment when neuromuscular electrical stimulation is applied over a nerve trunk compared with a muscle belly: quadriceps femoris." has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied Physiology.
April 26, 2012
Paper accepted! Dr. Auger's (née Clair) paper entitled: "The effects of wide pulse neuromuscular electrical stimulation on elbow flexion torque in individuals with chronic hemiparetic stroke." has been accepted for publication in Clinical Neurophysiology. This work resulted from her collaboration with Dr. Jules Dewald at Northwestern University in Chicago.
April 2, 2012
We congratulate Jenny Lou for her successful applications to Alberta Innovates' New Summer Studentship Awards and to U of A's Undergraduate Research Initiative. Jenny's project will help to identify better ways to use neuromuscular electrical stimulation to strengthen pathways between the brain and muscle for individuals who have had a spinal cord injury or stroke. We look forward to working with her this summer!
March 13, 2012
We were visited by two different classes as part of the U School program. Grade 6 students from Tipaskan School were here on March 7 while grade 9 students from Spruce Avenue School visited us on March 13. We enjoyed presenting our lab to the enthusiastic audiences and had a lot of fun. We hope it was a great learnng experience for all. See a brief story with pictures. See even more pictures.
