Friday, April 4, 2025

Exploiting Neuroplasticity to enhance motor learning in healthy and damaged brains

2:30 PM to 3:30 PM

School of Kinesiology
830 N. University Ave.
Room 2200
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048

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Hosted by the University of Michigan School of Kinesiology and featuring Lara A. Boyd, PT, PhD, fCAHS, Professor & Distinguished University Scholar, University of British Columbia. 

This talk will review recent data illustrating how neuroplastic change takes place in the human brain. It will discuss how interventions can be applied to stimulate motor learning. Data illustrating these processes in healthy human brains will be contrasted with that from individuals who suffer from brain damage such as stroke. 

Lara A. Boyd, PT, PhD, fCAHS

Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Medicine
Graduate Program in Neuroscience
University of British Columbia
Faculty Profile

Dr. Lara Boyd is a Peter Wall Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies Scholar, physical therapist and neuroscientist who is leading the effort to understand what therapies positively alter patterns of brain activity after stroke. Her group uses a combination of functional magnetic resonance imaging and transcranial magnetic stimulation to map changes in brain activity. Her studies are among the first to comprehensively examine the patterns of brain activation as they relate to motor learning and parameters of practice after stroke.