Current Research and Scholarly Interests
My research focuses on two main areas:
1) the structural organization and function of central neural pathways (e.g. of the spinal cord, brainstem, thalamus and cortex) that underlie directed manual behavior, and
2) the capacity of these central neural pathways (circuits) to compensate/adapt following localized injury. Our laboratory uses multiple neuroanatomical, electrophysiological and behavioural approaches to look at the sensorimotor systems of nonhuman primates, and rodents, to examine the neural basis for functional recovery observed following the selective disruption of pathways mediating fine finger control.
