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SUMMARY:EPFL BioE Talks SERIES  "Managing Trade-offs Between Effort and St
 ability During Locomotor Learning and Post-stroke Gait"
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. James M. Finley\, Locomotor Control Laboratory\, Univers
 ity of Southern California\, Los Angeles\, CA (USA)\nWEEKLY EPFL BIOE TALK
 S SERIES\n\nAbstract:\nWalking is one of the many skills that we learn dur
 ing development through trial-and-error practice. We eventually gain the a
 bility to not only walk with little effort over flat\, unobstructed terrai
 n\, but we also learn to adapt our walking pattern to changes in the envir
 onment or changes in the body that result from aging or disease. What fact
 ors govern the strategies that we choose during these forms of adaptive le
 arning? Likely candidates include a combination of features related to eff
 ort\, instability\, aesthetics\, and fear of falling. The relative weighti
 ng of these objectives impacts not only how we adapt our walking pattern w
 hen features of our environment change\, but it also dictates how our pref
 erred movement strategies change when there is damage to the nervous syste
 m\, as is the case following a stroke. Here\, I will summarize our recent 
 work to understand the trade-offs between two primary objectives in human 
 walking: effort minimization and minimizing fall risk. Through a combinati
 on of empirical studies and biomechanical simulations\, I will show that a
 symmetric walking patterns can\, in certain contexts\, be considered optim
 al with respect to effort and balance-related costs for both healthy indiv
 iduals and people post-stroke. I will conclude by making a case for a more
  personalized approach to identifying targets for locomotor rehabilitation
 \, one that relies on predictions of optimal movement patterns given the c
 onstraints imposed by the neuromuscular system.\n\nBio:\nDr. Finley receiv
 ed his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Florida A&M University\, and his 
 MS and PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University. After c
 ompleting his PhD\, Dr. Finley completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Neur
 oscience at Johns Hopkins University.\n\n\nZoom link (with one-time regist
 ration for the whole series) for attending remotely: https://go.epfl.ch/EP
 FLBioETalks\n\n\nInstructions for 1st-year Ph.D. students who are under ED
 BB’s mandatory seminar attendance rule:\nIF you are not attending in-per
 son in the room\, please make sure to\n\n	send D. Reinhard a note before n
 oon on seminar day\, informing that you plan to attend the talk online\, a
 nd\n	be signed in on Zoom with a recognizable user name (not a pseudonym m
 aking it difficult or impossible to be identified).\n\nStudents attending 
 the seminar in-person should collect a confirmation signature after the ta
 lk - please print your own signature sheet beforehand (71 kB pdf available
  for download here).
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