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Takako Shiratori, Ph.D. - Research Assistant Professor




Pennsylvania State University, Dept of Kinesiology (PhD, 2000)

Research Interests:

My current research direction is towards understanding the neuromuscular organization underlying the coordination of posture and movement. Here are some topics I have been working on:
  • Step initiation in young, elderly, and patients with Parkinson’s disease populations
  • Postural preparations to self- versus externally-triggered loading and unloading perturbations in standing, sitting, and wheelchair postures
  • Postural preparations to sequential perturbations in healthy, elderly, and patients with Parkinson’s disease
The ultimate goal is to apply these findings to help people with movement and postural control challenges. By tapping into different resources available (sensory, mechanical advantages, etc) to people with different mobility challenges, they may be able to enhance or to learn movement and postural balance strategies. In due course, we hope to provide innovative concepts for rehabilitative techniques and assistive-technologies.

Publications:

  • Aruin A, Shiratori T (in press) Anticipatory postural adjustments while sitting: the effects of different leg supports. Experimental Brain Research.
  • Aruin A, Mayka M, Shiratori T (2003). Could a motor action that has no direct relation to expected perturbation be associated with anticipatory postural adjustments? Neuroscience Letters, 341; 21-24.
  • Cesari P, Shiratori T, Olivato P, Duarte M (2001). Analysis of Multi-joint Reaching Movements using the Equilibrium-Point Hypothesis. Biol Cybern, 84: 217-226.
  • Shiratori T, Latash ML (2001). Anticipatory Postural Adjustments during Load Catching in Standing Subjects. Clin Neurophysiol, 112: 1250-65.
  • Aruin A, Shiratori T, Latash ML (2001). Anticipatory postural adjustments in external unloading perturbation by standing subject. Exp Brain Res, 128: 458-66.
  • Shiratori T, Latash ML (2000). The Roles of Proximal and Distal Muscles in Anticipatory Postural Adjustments under Asymmetrical Perturbations and during Standing on Rollerskates. Clin Neurophysiol, 111: 613-23.







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