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Dr. Beatty teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the areas of Sport, Performance, & Exercise Psychology. His research endeavors include efforts to better understand how the strategies individuals utilize to regulate attentional allocation and emotional experiences influence human performance. Dr. Beatty aims to engage in research that helps advance scientific theory and translate emerging knowledge to applied human performance settings. Dr. Beatty aspires to emulate such scientific-practitioner approaches to the classroom experience to facilitate and optimize student learning outcomes. View More
FacultyDr. Christou’s research focuses on the neural mechanisms that impair motor control with healthy aging and movement disorders, such as Essential Tremor and Ataxia. He is developing innovative rehabilitation tools to enhance function in people with motor control deficits. View More
FacultyDr. Seidler’s research focuses on the neural control of movement in health and disease, with a specific focus on motor learning and plasticity. She uses a range of neuroimaging and neuromodulation techniques coupled with precise measures of movement and cognitive function to determine the neurocognitive correlates of motor control. Dr. Seidler has expertise working with a variety of populations including healthy young and older adults, patients with Parkinson’s disease, and NASA astronauts in both basic science and intervention experiments. View More
FacultyDr. Beatty teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the areas of Sport, Performance, & Exercise Psychology. His research endeavors include efforts to better understand how the strategies individuals utilize to regulate attentional allocation and emotional experiences influence human performance. Dr. Beatty aims to engage in research that helps advance scientific theory and translate emerging knowledge to applied human performance settings. Dr. Beatty aspires to emulate such scientific-practitioner approaches to the classroom experience to facilitate and optimize student learning outcomes. View More
FacultyThe Department of Applied Physiology & Kinesiology (APK) studies the immediate and lasting effects of exercise and its use in performance enhancement and disease prevention and rehabilitation. Degree specializations include exercise physiology, fitness/wellness, athletic training, biomechanics, sport and exercise psychology, motor learning and control and human performance.
Coombes lab provides a new atlas and template outlining the sub-regions of the cortico-spinal tract using novel technology.
Christou lab publishes a new paper in Journal of Neurophysiology focused on perturbations to motor planning.
The Barton lab explores how insulin-like growth factor affects skeletal muscle at different ages. Their findings provide new evidence that age and insulin-like growth factor are key contributors to muscle quality.
APK appoints a director of the MS degree in Human Performance.
Dr. Terence Ryan funded to offer a new approach to Peripheral Artery Disease. This novel approach provides long awaited hope that PAD patients may have treatment options in the future that will reduce their pain, exercise intolerance and life changing symptoms.
