Andrew Pruszynski
Biography
Dr. Andrew Pruszynski is an associate professor in both the department of Physiology and Pharmacology at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry and Psychology in Social Science at the University of Western Ontario. He currently teaches undergraduate courses offered in the department and is a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair of Sensorimotor Neuroscience. His research interests lie in the neural mechanisms that occur during sensory perception and motor control.
Associate Professor
Tier 2 Canada Research Chair of Sensorimotor Neuroscience
Dept: Physiology & Pharmacology, Psychology
Office: RRI 1254A
Email: andrew.pruszynski@uwo.ca
Research Interests and Areas
- Neural mechanisms of reaching, grasping and object manipulation. Movement appears effortless but actually reflects a myriad of complex interactions between the mechanical properties of the body and a highly distributed neural circuit.
- How various parts of the nervous system – from receptors in the skin and muscles to neurons in the brainstem and cerebral cortex – work together to resolve these complex interactions when generating skilled movement of the arm and hand.
- Yield better treatments for recovering hand and arm function following peripheral nerve injury, spinal cord injury, and stroke.
