Professor Staines’ research interests focus on understanding: 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. The long-term objective is to use this knowledge to formulate strategies targeted at enhancing neural adaptations to improve motor behaviour and lessen disability following stroke.
Professor Staines’ research program focuses on understanding how the central nervous system integrates sensory information from multiple input sources and transforms this sensory information to appropriate motor commands.
Understanding of recovery processes following brain injury from stroke is still relatively underdeveloped and there is a pressing need for new innovative approaches to improve rehabilitation in order to promote recovery and lessen disability. This research integrates state-of-the-art neuroimaging and neurophysiological techniques in healthy and brain-injured populations to understand the physiological substrates of recovery from brain injury due to stroke.
Specifically, studies in the lab investigate mechanisms in the human central nervous system that are responsible for controlling movement and for adaptations due to learning and injury.
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