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Sensory Motor Neurology Unit

Scope of Research: Systems Neuroscience

Goals are to understand how sensory inputs are processed and integrated with motor control mechanisms to produce meaningful behavior, including the relevant neural systems and mechanisms that underlie these behaviors.

  • Multi sensory mechanisms of spatial localization
  • Vestibular and Multi sensory control of balance and gaze
  • Cortical processing of self-motion cues in heading perception and ambulation
  • Cortical control of hand and finger fine motor skills
  • Adaptive plasticity underlying the recovery of function and rehabilitation
  • Aging and its effects on sensorimotor function and plasticity
  • Applied clinical problems arise frequently

Systems neuroscience is multidisciplinary, entails human and often awake-behaving primate subjects, and techniques that encompass behavioral and psychophysics methods, single-cell recording, anatomical tracers, and functional imaging. Formal interactive research structures are common at the U of R, and include:

  • “Resource laboratories” for the study of spatial orientation
  • The Center for Visual Science, spanning Departments on main and medical campuses
  • Older American Independence (Pepper) Center
  • Graduate Program in Neural Science

Contact

Gary D. Paige, M.D., Ph.D., Unit Chief
Gary_paige@urmc.rochester.edu
Phone: 585-275-6395