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March 27, 2025How Emotions Can Modulate Vestibular-Motor Responses
A newly published study in the Journal of Physiology, by co-first authors Dr. Martin Zaback and Solenne Villemer, demonstrates that emotional and arousal states can modulate balance responses evoked by the vestibular system. This research was conducted in Dr. Mark Carpenter’s Lab in collaboration…
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March 21, 2025Congratulations to Solenne Villemer on Defending her master’s Thesis!
We are pleased to announce that Solenne Villemer, from the Neural Control of Posture and Movement Lab, has successfully defended her Master’s thesis titled "Implicit adaptation to galvanic vestibular perturbations during goal-directed postural movements".Under the supervision of Dr. Mark Carpenter…
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February 24, 2025Upcoming Seminar – Dr. Amundsen-Huffmaster, University of Minnesota
We are looking forward to the upcoming seminar given by Dr. Sommer Amundsen-Huffmaster on “Trouble in Transition: The Neurophysiology of Freezing of Gait in Parkinson’s Disease.”Join us Thursday March 6th @ 1pm in person or by zoom. Visit the event link to add this seminar to your…
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February 13, 2025The Balance Center Welcomes Jeff Nickel as New Scientific Engineer
We are thrilled to welcome Jeff Nickel as the new Scientific Engineer of the UBC Balance and Falls Research Centre! Bringing with him extensive experience in instrumentation and human movement, Jeff will help advance the Centre's research by developing creative electrical, mechanical, and…
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February 10, 2025Wearables and Biomechanics 2025 Summer School
Ready to advance your expertise in assistive devices, wearables, and biomechanics this summer? Join us at UBC Vancouver on June 23-26, 2025, alongside 40 selected graduate students from across Canada for an intensive 4-day hands-on training with leading experts in the field.Visit the event…
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February 10, 2025A wearable experimental pain system - motor adaptation in the wild!
Research lead by Dr. Jesse Charlton, in collaboration with Dr. Jean-Sébastien Blouin, Dr. Calvin Kuo and Liam Foulger lead to another significant publication in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. The team brought experimental pain research into the real world…
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February 7, 2025Congratulations to Alex Liu on Defending his Master's Thesis!
We are pleased to announce that Alex Liu, a Balance Center Trainee supervised by Dr. Blouin, has successfully defended his thesis earlier this week. As part of the Sensorimotor Physiology Laboratory, his thesis focused on "Assessing lower limb proprioception with a novel mechatronics device."Alex…
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January 31, 2025Making Standing Balance Assessment Accessible Outside the Laboratory
The newly established UBC Balance and Falls Research Centre marks an exciting start to 2025 with its first publication! The work stems from a successful collaboration between Dr. Jean-Sébastien Blouin (Sensorimotor Physiology Lab), Dr. Mark Carpenter (Neural Control of Movement and Posture Lab),…
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December 8, 2024OBDAF has become a formal Research Centre at UBC
We are very pleased to announce that the former OBDAF Research Cluster has now been formally approved to become the new "UBC Balance and Falls Research Centre"
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May 23, 2023Hands-On VR Workshop in Santa Barbara July 17-21, 2023
This is an opportunity for OBDAF members to experience a special hands-on VR workshop with WorldViz experts in Santa Barbara July 17-21 in conjunction with BIOPAC’s 4T|Phys Human Physiology Conference.This workshop is for you if you are interested in getting started with or learning more about…