Contact information
Office: BMH 3034
Phone: 519-888-4567, ext. 47756
Email: rstaines@uwaterloo.ca
Website: Sensorimotor Integration and Neuroplasticity (SINAPs) Lab
Research interests
As director of the Sensorimotor Integration and Neuroadaptive Plasticity Lab (SINAPs), my research focuses on: 1) how the brain interprets, adapts to and integrates sensory inputs to guide motor behaviour, and 2) how these processes are affected by and can contribute to recovery from brain injury. My research integrates neuroimaging and neurophysiological techniques in healthy and brain-injured populations to understand the physiological mechanisms in the human central nervous system that are responsible for controlling movement and for adaptations due to learning and injury.
Graduate supervision and student opportunities
- Research volunteer
- Undergraduate thesis
- MSc and PhD thesis
- Co-op placements and coursework interns
- Postdoctoral fellowship
Please email me to discuss current available opportunities.
Graduate studies application details
Teaching, expertise, tools and technologies
- Neuroscience
- Attention
- Neurologic disorders
Courses
KIN301: Human Anatomy of the Central Nervous System
KIN415: Clinical Neurophysiology
Education
BSc Human Kinetics, University of Guelph
PhD, University of Guelph
Selected publications
See Google Scholar for full list of publications.
See PubMed for publications.
Adams MS, Popovich C, Staines WR. Gating at early cortical processing stages is associated with changes in behavioural performance on a sensory conflict task. Behav Brain Res. 2017, 317, 179-87.
Brown MJ, Staines WR. Differential effects of continuous theta burst stimulation over left premotor cortex and right prefrontal cortex on modulating upper limb somatosensory input. Neuroimage, 2016, 127, 97-109.
Popovich C, Staines WR. Acute aerobic exercise enhances attentional modulation of somatosensory event-related potentials during a tactile discrimination task. Behav Brain Res. 2015, 281, 267-275.
Singh AM, Neva JL, Staines WR. Acute exercise enhances the response to paired associative stimulation-induced plasticity in the primary motor cortex. Exp Brain Res. 2014, 232, 3675-85.