MCC 2009

Varna

BULGARIA

 

MOTOR CONTROL CONFERENCE MCC

FROM BASIC MOTOR CONTROL TO FUNCTIONAL RECOVERY VI

 

5 - 8 September  2009 VARNA, BULGARIA

 

 

 

 

SYMPOSIUM

 

FALLS RISK FACTORS AND PREVENTION STRATEGIES IN OLDER PEOPLE:

A PHYSIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

 

 Daina STURNIEKS

SENSORY, MOTOR AND BALANCE RISK FACTORS FOR FALLS

 

Mirjam PIJNAPPELS

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS TO REACT TO BALANCE PERTURBATIONS

 

Stephen LORD

FALL RISK ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION STRATEGIES: A PHYSIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

 

LECTURES and SESSIONS

to be hold during MCC2009

 

Thierry POZZO, Paul STAPLEY

MODULAR CONTROL OF POSTURE AND MOVEMENT - SESSION

 

Alexander ARUIN

FEEDFORWARD AND FEEDBACK ELEMENTS OF POSTURAL CONTROL:

HOW STRONG IS THEIR RELATIONSHIP?

 

Leonardo COHEN

INFLUENCE OF NONINVASIVE TRANSCRANIAL STIMULATION ON MOTOR SKILL LEARNING

 

Kamiar AMINIAN

MOTOR FUNCTION EVALUATION THROUGH GAIT ANALYSIS WITH WEARABLE SENSORS

 

Carlo FRIGO

MUSCULAR FUNCTION RIVISED THROUGH MUSCULOSKELETAL DYNAMIC MODELS

 

Antonio NARDONE

PERIPHERAL AND CENTRAL MECHANISMS FOR POSTURAL CONTROL: SUGGESTIONS FROM NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES

 

George STELMACH

MOTOR CONTROL ISSUES IN PARKINSONS DISEASE

 

 

AMONG INVATED SPEAKERS ARE:

Alexander ARUIN (University of Illinois, Chicago, USA)

Antonio NARDONE (Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, IRCCS, Istituto Scientifico di Riabilitazione) Veruno, ITALIA)

Carlo FRIGO (Politecnico di Milano, Milano, ITALIA)

Francois VIALLETT (Department of Neurology, Aix en Province, FRANCE)

George STELMACH (Motor Control Section, Arizona, USA)

Kamiar AMINIAN (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, SWISS)

Leonardo G. COHEN (National Institute of Health, NIH/NINDS, USA)

Mark HALLETT (National Institute of Health, NIH/NINDS, USA)

Martin SCHUBERT (Universitätsklinik, BALGRIST, Zürich, SWISS)

Stephen LORD (Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Sydney, AUSTRALIA)

Thierry POZZO (Motricité-Plasticité, INSERM, Dijon, FRANCE)

Paul STAPLEY (Montreal, CANADA)

Mirjam PIJNAPPLES (Research Institute MOVE, Faculty of Human Movement Sciences, Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS)

Marco SCHIEPPATI (Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri (IRCCS) Istituto Scientifico di Pavia. Pavia, ITALIA)

 Daina STURNIEKS (Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Sydney, AUSTRALIA)