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Assistant Professor
Memorial University of Newfoundland, United States
Gregory Pearcey is a Sensorimotor Neuroscientist and Exercise Physiologist who focuses on how humans control movement and how their sensorimotor system adapts to use and disuse. As a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Northwestern University and Shirley Ryan Ability Lab, he studied human motor unit behaviour using high-density surface electromyography under the mentorship of Drs. CJ Heckman and W Zev Rymer. In his new role as an Assistant Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland (Canada), he uses a translational approach to examine how movement, sensory input, physical training, and novel therapeutic interventions, such as acute intermittent hypoxia, can improve abilities and capacities in healthy and impaired humans across the lifespan. His human neurophysiology research lends evidence from basic cellular and molecular neuroscience to improve human motor function, and his doctoral thesis was entitled "Exploiting evolutionarily conserved pathways to promote plasticity of human spinal circuits" under the supervision of Dr. E Paul Zehr at the University of Victoria.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
11:05 AM – 11:12 AM
