Research topic: Motor recovery and cognition in individuals with acquired brain injury
Research methods: Clinical studies; ecological valid assessments; virtual reality and video-games to facilitate physical activity; accelerometers
Projects in the lab include:
- Testing the effectiveness of self-training to improve the weaker upper extremity poststroke; playing video-games or traditional train-ing; a randomized controlled trial.
- The effectiveness of the tablet for the improvement of the upper extremity poststroke.
- The development of a computerized functional assessment for as-sessing executive function deficits.
- Assessing the relationship between clinical measures of balance to the center of pressure displacement in individuals with stroke com-pared to healthy individuals.