Monthly Archives: January 2015


Interview with Professor Simon Gandevia on motor impairment

Siobhan Moylan, a science and media communicator at Neuroscience Research Australia, recently conducted this insightful interview with Professor Simon Gandevia. In the interview, Professor Gandevia talks at length about motor impairment, which is the focus of a recent NHMRC Program Grant entitled ‘Motor Impairment: basic and applied human neurophysiology’.   […]


Fighting fire with fire: using vibration to suppress tremor 2

Treatments for tremor disorders have largely focused on the prescription of medications or, in more severe cases, brain surgery (for a review see Schneider & Deuschl 2015). In recent years, there have been some novel – and at times ‘sci-fi’ – approaches to reducing tremor amplitude.  Such approaches include the […]


2014 year in review – Evolution, Australiana and the passing of a great physiologist

Here we highlight some 2014 messages from the Motor Impairment team.  This is the final one of our summaries for 2014. We have posted earlier messages on the blog about: 2014 year in review – Diseases, Disorders and Disabilities 2014 year in review – Ageing 2014 year in review – […]


2014 year in review – statistics, science and why we should not sit down!

Here we highlight some 2014 messages from the Motor Impairment team.  These ones focus on SCIENCE and SCIENTISTS and were reported during the year.  They have some pointers and messages but they also reveal some pitfalls. In the coming days we will post additional highlights from 2014 dealing with other […]


2014 year in review – new physiology: the winning nose, human exercise and more

Here we highlight some 2014 messages from the Motor Impairment team.  They focus on some new physiology reported during the year and hopefully illustrate how the body functions. In the coming days we will post additional highlights from 2014 dealing with other aspects of Motor Impairment and motor performance. MUSCLE […]