Always a big highlight of the year. RIO group conference 2024 catching up with colleagues and friends, discussing motor imagery and action observation, and sampling some of the local history, culture, and of course beer. Thanks to Caroline Wakefield Liverpool Hope University for hosting!

📢 Big Announcement!

We are thrilled to announce that the 7th World Parkinson Congress will take place in...(drum roll please🥁) Phoenix, Arizona, USA May, 24- 27, 2026.

Learn more at WPC2026.org and submit your 'See You in Phoenix' photos!

#wpc2026 #Parkinsons

Successful first day of #NCMDub24 with some interesting discussions about motor imagery and brain stimulation. Causing confusion with my affiliations 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 NCM society

New preprint! How do body-related attention and emotions affect our ability to adapt movement? The answer may be different for women and men 🖱🎯😳😎 U of T Kinesiology & Phys Ed Tim Welsh Catherine Sabiston Delaney Thibodeau osf.io/preprints/psya…

Very interesting and productive workshop today
Parkinson Canada discussing patient engagement with people with Parkinsons, caregivers, and researchers. Lots of good ideas to take forward to help improve the impact of #Parkinsons research Soania Mathur, MD Benjamin Stecher Ron B

Getting ready for our workshop on patient engagement in #Parkinsons research Parkinson Canada #WorldParkinsonsDay #Parkinsons AwarenessMonth

We have 2 PhD studentships to work on an ERC funded project led by Sallie Lamb We will simulate situations where older adults often fall VSimulators
1 PhD will focus on biomechanics & the other on the influence of sensory integration & cognition on balance/gait. DL=2nd April

Thanks to PPI Ignite Network Ireland for supporting a patient and public involvement event we hosted UCD Psychology to introduce people living with #Parkinsons to neuroscience methods and research. A useful learning experience for all involved! ucd.ie/psychology/new…

This is impressive and hopefully impactful too 🤞

If anyone who wants to study VR for stroke rehab we have a fully funded PhD:

tinyurl.com/46nvct7c

I'd love to hear from anyone who is interested

best wishes for the amazing work you're doing Emma Dunn

Productive day filming for my new study investigating kinematics of #dance for #Parkinsons . Lucky to be working with the talented Jianna Neufeld instagram.com/jiannaneufeld/ on this project funded by MarieSkłodowskaCurie IrishResearchCouncil DOROTHY COFUND HealthResearchBoard EPA Ireland

We are still open to submissions for papers on physical or mental health outcomes of group/partnered dance! Please share!

If you're publishing research on #mentalpractice (eg using motor imagery / action observation), why not submit your article to our research topic: 'cognitive strategies in motor learning and rehabilitation' tinyurl.com/32hyu9da

Frontiers - Neurology

please share 😀

Excited to start the first phase of this research with
Tim Welsh U of T Kinesiology & Phys Ed UCD Psychology
funded by Horizon Europe🇪🇺 MarieSkłodowskaCurie IrishResearchCouncil DOROTHY COFUND HealthResearchBoard EPA Ireland
kpe.utoronto.ca/faculty-news/j…

Our new paper is now available investigating whether different types of paired (dyad) practice facilitate learning of a golf putting task!

Access here - rdcu.be/dso8H

A huge thanks to Motor Skills Lab, April Karlinsky, Tim Welsh, Jonathan Howard, Aneesha Mehta

Feeling energized and inspired after two days at the #CanadianMovementDisordersMeeting . We’re more committed than ever to push forward in research and care to improve #MovementDisorders treatment in Canada. Thank you Parkinson Canada for hosting! #CMDM2023

New paper 🚨

Now published in Journal of Motor Behavior - we showed how learner-controlled role-switching in dyad practice provided no (dis)advantage for learning compared to a ‘traditional’ alternating dyad schedule.

tandfonline.com/eprint/9KGHCYU…

🚨 NEWS: A statement from our Director General about the #glyphosate vote result.

Please join us in urging the EU to rethink its decision:

Share this message far and wide to show your concerns about the health and environment risks of using the pesticide glyphosate.

Looking forward to working with colleagues at UCD Psychology and U of T Kinesiology & Phys Ed to develop my interdisciplinary research into strategies to support neurorehabilitation for #Parkinsons . Thank you for this opportunity IrishResearchCouncil MarieSkłodowskaCurie DOROTHY COFUND HealthResearchBoard EPA Ireland

Excited to announce that the 2024 RIO group Conference will take place on 16th & 17th May at Liverpool Hope University, as hosted by Caroline Wakefield … looking forward to sharing more information about invited speakers and abstract submissions in due course 🤩

Excited to share our latest work on PLOS ONE

In collaboration with Derek Smith and Dr. Qin “Arthur” Zhu from UWyo News, we compared the reliability of a webcam-based range of motion (ROM) evaluation tool with OptiTrack.

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dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…