Dr. Scholz' research is directed toward understanding basic processes underlying the control and coordination of movement in healthy individuals and deficits in those processes in patients with movement dysfunction, particularly individuals with stroke. This work combines experiments designed to understand how the nervous system solves the purported motor redundancy "problem" to learn and achieve successful functional movement tasks along with modeling in collbaboration with Dr. Gregor Schöner's group. The laboratory studies the coordination of skilled upper extremity activities such as reaching, pointing and drawing tasks, postural control, and recovery of walking post-stroke using a novel approach combining robotics, functional electrical stimulation and motor learning in collaboration with Drs. Agrawal, Binder-Macleod and Higginson. 

 

 

Collaborators: 

• Dr. Gregor Schöner, Institut für Neuroinformatiks, Bochum, Germany.
  
• Dr. Mark Latash, Department of Kinesiology, Pennsylvania State University.
• Drs. John Jeka and Tim Kiemel, Department of Kinesiology, University of Maryland.Drs.
• Sunil Agrawal, Stuart Binder-Macleod, Jill Higginson, University of Delaware

Dr. Scholz’s area of clinical interest is the treatment of adult and pediatric patients with movement dysfunction due to central nervous system damage (e.g., stroke). 

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