Cognitive-Motor Integration: Concussion, Brain Health & Movement

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The webinar will review research into the use of « Cognitive-Motor Integration » as a behavioural assessment of brain health and explore how concussion injury and dementia risk can impact the neural networks that control rule-based skilled performance. The webinar will also describe preliminary research into an intervention that combines visuomotor skills and postural stability to help individuals experiencing persistent post-concussion symptoms.

Speaker: Dr. Lauren Sergio

Dr. Lauren Sergio is a Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Science at York University and holds a Tier 1 York Research Chair in Brain Health and Gender in Action. She received her PhD, specializing in movement neuroscience, from McGill University in 1994, and pursued post-doctoral studies in neurophysiology at the Université de Montréal. Her research examines the effects of age, sex, gender, neurological disease, head injury, and experience on the brain’s control of complex movement using behavioural and brain imaging techniques. She is a member of the York University Sport Medicine team and runs their Varsity Athlete Data Analytics & Research sport injury research program