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Prof. B. Day

Whole-body Sensorimotor Lab

Lab Head: Professor Brian Day

DayLab News: Former team member, Dr. Lisa Bunn, was presented with the Gordon Holmes Clinical Neuroscience Award by the Royal Society of Medicine on 1st March.  The award was given in recognition of her work with Spinocerebellar Ataxia patients here at the Institute of Neurology.  Story in Frontline Magazine.

The laboratory focuses on neural processes that control human movement and balance, and their disorders resulting from damage to the central nervous system.

Our main lines of investigation are aimed at understanding the mechanisms that control and integrate whole-body actions, in particular standing, walking, and reaching. We are interested in how the neural processes combine sensory information from vestibular organs, eyes, muscles and skin to compute motor instructions. The brain regions in which we are currently interested include the cerebellum, basal ganglia, and parietal cortex.

The labs are housed on the 5th floor of 33 Queen Square. The main research tools consist of non-invasive sensory stimulation techniques coupled with 3D movement measurement technology. The recording equipment includes eight CODA sensor units each of which can determine the 3D coordinates of up to 56 infrared emitting body markers. This kinematic information is combined with force data from up to five Kistler force plates and two JR3 6-axis force handles, electromyographic activity transmitted wirelessly from up to 32 muscles using a Delsys Trigno system, as well as gaze data from a binocular head mounted system from Applied Science Laboratories.

Current research topics:

Walking and Stepping
Standing
Trunk Control
Reaching

Group members:

Professor Brian L Day (Principle Investigator; bday{at}ion.ucl.ac.uk) publications

Dr Tim Cacciatore (Research Fellow; t.cacciatore{at}ion.ucl.ac.uk)

Dr Omar Mian (Research Fellow; o.mian{at}ion.ucl.ac.uk) academia.edu page

Dr Jennifer Stephenson (Research Fellow; j.stephenson{at}ion.ucl.ac.uk)

Ms Amy Peters (Research Assistant; a.peters{at}ion.ucl.ac.uk)

Mr Daniel Voyce (Senior Research Engineer; d.voyce{at}ion.ucl.ac.uk)

Current Grants

MRC programme grant (2006-2011)

Ataxia UK research grant (2006-2011)

MRC research grant (2009-2012)

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