received his BSc degree in Physical Therapy from the Paulista State University (UNESP) in 2004 and a Master of Science degree (M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering) from the University of Mogi das Cruzes, São Paulo, in 2007. In 2011, he received his Ph.D. degree in Neuroscience from the University of Sao Paulo (USP). In 2012, he stayed as a post-doctoral researcher (FAPESP's Post-Doctoral fellowship) at the Biomedical Engineering Laboratory at University of Sao Paulo (USP). Currently, he holds an Associate Professor Position at the School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities of University of São Paulo (EACH-USP). His research focuses on the neural control of human movement and posture, spanning basic science to translational application, including neural responses to injury and disease. He has been interested in exploring central and peripheral influences on reflex responses (H-reflex, F-waves, V-waves) as well as in studying the control of human movement and posture in different challenging situations and with altered sensory feedback. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Although sports practice has been considered effective in generating neuromuscular adaptations associated with postural control improvements, to date few studies have investigated the behavior of postural sway of athletes in response to the manipulation of sensory information such as the addition of tactile sensory cues. Moreover, a large number of studies have shown increased postural os…
Presynaptic inhibition (PSI) has been shown to modulate several neuronal pathways of functional relevance by selectively gating the connections between sensory inputs and spinal motoneurons, thereby regulating the contribution of the stretch reflex circuitry to the ongoing motor activity. In this study, we investigated whether a differential regulation of Ia afferent inflow by PSI may be …
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The personality trait of extraversion (a personality dimension associated with sociability) has been identified as an important feature of individual differences. For example, differences between introverts and extroverts were reported in the field of motor behavior, based on the analysis of the performance of these individuals in a wide variety of experimental paradigms involving motor t…
The ability to perform voluntary muscle contractions with minimum fluctuations in torque while matching a given torque level represents a measure of how accurately and smoothly a subject can control the torque developed by a particular muscle or muscle group. The precision of these movements is controlled by the central nervous system on the basis of information from sensory inputs applie…
Human subjects during upright stance show a random postural sway with respect to vertical, which is controlled by the central nervous system on the basis of information from sensory inputs applied to the visual, vestibular and proprioceptive systems. A deficit in any of these sensory systems causes a loss in the performance of the postural control system, which results in an increased amp…
Thanks to advances in the knowledge on spinal circuits and to the development of electrophysiological techniques such as the assessment of H-reflex through paired-pulse stimulation, it is possible to employ non-invasive protocols to selectively explore the transmission within a variety of human spinal cord pathways so as to investigate the possible role of specific spinal mechanisms on a …
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