Senior lecturer
PhD, 2006
gait, locomotion, chaotic perturbations, rehabilitation, energy cost, motor learning |
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- Ph.D. 2006 in neurophysiology
- Motor Control and Learning of Walking
- Rehabilitation of Walking
- Rehabilitation of persons with Cerebral Palsy
Major expertise and techniques in the lab
- Split Belt Treadmill
- Chaotic Perturbation in walking
- Monitoring Habitual Physical Activities with accelerometers
- Kinetics
Publications and funding summary / representative publications and grants
Grants:
- CP-PALS funded by MERC USAID
- "Re-Step": a computerized dynamic balance treatment for rehabilitation of unassitnat gait in TBI :a randomized control trial. Funded by Israeli Insurance Association Research Fund
Selected Publications:
- Shkedy Rabani, N. Harries, I. Namourah, M. Al-Jarrah, A. Karniel, S. Bar-Haim Habitual Physical Activity of Adolescents and Young Adults with Cerebral Palsy in the Middle East DMCN 2014 Feb 10.
- Mawase F., Shmuelof L., Bar-Haim S., and Karniel A. Savings in Locomotor adaptation explained by changes in learning parameters following initial adaptation J Neurophysiol 2014 Apr;111(7):1444-54
- Prof Amir Karniel Bio Engineering dep. BGU
- Dr. Mindy Aisen Rancho Los Amigos Rehabilitation Center LA
Suggested multi-disciplinary research project / research focus topics
- Motor Control of walking
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- fMRI, DTI walking in health and disease
- Habitual Physical Activities
Looking for expertise / project
- We are looking for PhD candidates with clinical, engineering and/or neuroscience background preferably with experience in gait, who are interested in leading a clinical trial and the research involved.