UCLPartners Centre for Neurorehabilitation seminar: Professor Jon Marsden

About the lecture:   Apraxia is most commonly seen after left parieto-frontal cortex damage. It affects the production and learning of skilled movements.  Several dissociations have been reported such as differences in meaningful vs meaningless movements and in movements generated in response to verbal (pantomiming) vs visual (imitating) commands.  This seminar will explore the neurological and neuro-psychological basis of this complex impairment including our own work on body representation in apraxia. Although there has been an expansion in our knowledge in the last 10 years of the causes of apraxia this has not translated into rehabilitation approaches. The current evidence base and future directions for rehabilitation of apraxia will be explored.

About the speaker:  Jon Marsden qualified as a physiotherapist in 1991; he undertook clinical rotations at the United Bristol Healthcare trust and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London. From 1999 he worked as a postdoctoral scientist and MRC fellow in the Sobell Dept for Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, UCL investigating the pathophysiology and rehabilitation of walking and balance following peripheral and central nervous system damage. Since 2007 he has been Professor of Rehabilitation at the School of Health Professions, University of Plymouth.