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Welcome to the Biomechanics, Rehabilitation, and Interdisciplinary Neuroscience (BRaIN) Lab at the University of Central Florida
Our mission
To advance knowledge about the human brain and human locomotion and to develop new methods for making brain technologies more accessible and inclusive
Biomechanics
The motion, forces, and energy of movement
Rehabilitation
Preserving and recovering mobility
Interdisciplinary Neuroscience
Combining neuroscience with engineering, art, and communication science
Research
We study the brain dynamics and neuromechanics of human locomotion and adaptation. We also explore and develop new methods to expand the capabilities of electroencephalography (EEG) to study human movement. Our long-term goal is to develop gait and lower limb rehabilitation approaches based on brain dynamics and multimodal neuromechanics. We hope to help people walk faster, walk more economically, have improved balance, and be able to move to adapt to unexpected situations.
Funding: NIH R01 AG054621, NSF CAREER 1942712, UCF
Featured Research
Publication Highlights
Our study on self-paced treadmill controllers is now published in @PLOSONE! Congrats to @CesarRCastano on his first first-author peer-reviewed publication! https://t.co/etYjK4W1z7 https://t.co/IYbOgcMi0F
— Helen J. Huang (@HelenJHuang) May 7, 2021
That’s pretty neat - Seyed’s (@shirazi_en) digitization 2019 paper is one of the editor’s pick 2021! Congrats Seyed and great job! pic.twitter.com/4zz0pnN1EF
— Helen J. Huang (@HelenJHuang) April 26, 2021
Our first publication of 2021 by Seyed (@shirazi_en) and funded by #NIH #NIA is available via early access at @TNSRE1. Can we activate specific brain areas at specific times by tuning perturbations? How do people adapt to these perturbations? https://t.co/XwE0va18Mh
— Helen J. Huang (@HelenJHuang) February 4, 2021
Recent Posts
First lab social of 2021: peach and blueberry picking
It was a nice day to spend outside in the sun and fresh air with labmates and friends at Southern Hill Farms in Orlando, FL.
Accepted: Cesar’s paper on self-paced treadmills!
Congrats to Cesar for having his work on self-paced treadmills published in PLOS ONE. Castano, C. R. & Huang, H. J. Speed-related but not detrended
Editor’s Pick – Congrats, Seyed!
Seyed’s paper, “More Reliable EEG Electrode Digitizing Methods Can Reduce Source Estimation Uncertainty, but Current Methods Already Accurately Identify Brodmann Areas. Front. Neurosci. 13, 1159