Manuel  Hulliger

Dr. Manuel Hulliger

Positions

Professor Emeritus

Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Professor Emeritus

Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology

Emeritus Member

Hotchkiss Brain Institute

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Research

Areas of Research

Movement control and rehabilitation

Data from an animal model of chronic large-fibre deafferentation and peripheral sensory neuropathy are used to investigate the severe motor dysfunction that results from experimentally induced sensory loss and to explore the scope of neuromotor rehabilitation based on new methods of motor retraining.

 

The methods used include:

  • Chronic and acute electrophysiology
  • Kinematic and behavioural analysis of motor patterns
  • Histology and morphometry of sensory neurons
  • Labelling and morphometric analysis of functionally identified single neurons
  • In mathematical modeling studies
  • In morphometric investigations