Dr. Monica Gorassini

Dr. Monica Gorassini is a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Alberta. She works on how the brain, spinal cord, and spinal motoneurons adapt to injury and disease such as spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy, and ALS. She is the Principal Investigator of the Motor Control Laboratory whose main goal is to understand the neuronal mechanisms that mediate the development of spasticity and motor dysfunction after spinal cord injury and cerebral palsy. They study why motoneurons recover PICs and self sustained activity after chronic spinal cord injury and if similar mechanisms exist in cerebral palsy. Also examining the effects of intensive motor training in adults with incomplete spinal cord injuries and in babies with strokes. Her research group aims to develop new pharmacological rehabilitative therapies to both control spasticity after trauma to the central nervous system and improve residual motor movements. Read more about Dr. Gorassini through the web link: https://sites.ualberta.ca/~mag4/index_files/Page483.htm