Sensory-Motor Control & Pain

The mammalian nervous system is extremely adaptable and responsive to changes in environmental and task demands, development stage, state of health and wellbeing.

By modulating the perceptual, behavioral and systemic physiological responses to such changes, homeostasis may be preserved. However, inappropriate sensori-motor control due to traumatic brain injury or clinical disorders (i.e. vestibular, stroke) as well as neuro-immune interactions involved in the generation and maintenance of pain may affect this process, necessitating the development of new system set points or indeed progressive functional decline may interact and influence these physiological processes.

Our Sensory-motor Control and Pain grouping aims to investigate such responses in a multi-disciplinary but integrated fashion to facilitate basic mechanistic understanding and the development of novel therapies.