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28 June 2021 12:00 - 13:00 PM

Abstract

In most areas of medicine, clinical assessment has changed dramatically through the development of objective technologies and biological assays to quantify body function. However, clinical assessment of brain function continues to be largely based on subjective measures through physical or visual inspection by a clinician. This necessitates relatively coarse rating systems that commonly have floor and ceiling effects. Our general hypothesis is that robotic technologies can provide an objective approach to quantify brain function and dysfunction. I will describe our development of the Kinarm robotic system initially used to study the neural basis of voluntary control. I will then describe the development of a suite of behavioural tasks to assess arm sensory and motor function as well tasks to explore cognitive function and its interaction with the motor system. While these tasks were initially prototyped to quantify impairments with stroke, I will also describe how these robot-based tasks have also been used to assess a broad range of other neurological diseases/injuries.

Biography

Dr. Stephen Scott holds the GSK Chair in Neuroscience and is Professor in the Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences at Queen’s University. He received a B.A.Sc. and a M.A.Sc. in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo, and a Ph.D. in physiology from Queen’s University. His basic research program explores the neural, mechanical and behavioural aspects of voluntary control including studies on human and non-human primates. His clinical research explores the use of interactive robots and other advanced technologies for neurological assessment. He has published 170 journal articles and given over 200 invited talks. He invented the Kinarm robot, and co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Kinarm that commercializes these robotic platforms for basic and clinical research.

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