Lara Boyd
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Professor, Neuroscientist, PT, Director Brain Behaviour Lab UBC, Mom, Runner, Dog Lover, Canadian
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TMSMultiLab
27 days ago
Many thanks to the 60 gorgeous
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researchers who took a few minutes to complete our user survey. The quantitative results have been processed and summarised, and are now available in full on our GitHub page:
github.com/TMSMultiLab/...
A quick breakdown follows in this thread:
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TMS User Survey
Resources, data and code to help you run a TMS laboratory - TMSMultiLab/TMSMultiLab
https://github.com/TMSMultiLab/TMSMultiLab/wiki/TMS-User-Survey
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Thrilled to celebrate 8 new grads from our graduate program in Rehabilitation Sciences - Congrats!
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@ubcosot.bsky.social
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Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health (DMCBH)
6 months ago
DMCBH member Dr. Lara Boyd (
@lboyd47.bsky.social
) has created a video game to help with stroke recovery. βOur hope is to gamify rehabilitation, creating an enjoyable experience for patients that will extend the exercises that they perform in structured therapy to regain limb functionality.β
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Gamified stroke recovery improves arm function - Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health | DMCBH
New software brings the fun of playing a video game to high-repetition rehabilitative exercises for individuals affected by stroke. For the
https://www.centreforbrainhealth.ca/news/gamified-stroke-recovery-improves-arm-function/
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Learning a new movement with your arm relies on learning to move your eyes! Check out our new paper
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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@jandrushko.bsky.social
@ubcosot.bsky.social
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Oculomotor learning is evident during implicit motor sequence learning - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Oculomotor learning is evident during implicit motor sequence learning
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-93498-0?utm_source=rct_congratemailt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oa_20250319&utm_content=10.1038/
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Sherry Pagoto, PhD
9 months ago
New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024. That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved. Show me a better investment than that.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
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NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report
National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2025/03/12/nih-grants-fueled-95-billion-in-economic-activity-finds-new-report/
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Allen Institute
9 months ago
Happy
#BrainAwarenessWeek
! π§ π All week long, we'll be sharing all things brain and take you behind the scenes of our work to demystify it. π¨ Amazing agar art by Research Associate Brooke Wynalda!
#Neuroskyence
#BrainWeek
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AndreaDC she/herβπΌβ₯οΈπΏπππππ»Despair is a luxury we just canβt afford
9 months ago
Tomorrow:
#MarchForScience
#March7
#March7th
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Dana ππ¬πͺ±
9 months ago
Dear HHMI - this is a much better response - take notes
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Canadian Psychological Association
9 months ago
@liisagalea.bsky.social
is a scientific lead for the
@camhnews.bsky.social
program womenmindβ’, which tackles gender disparities in science and mental health research.
#PsychologyMonth
#WomenInScience
https://buff.ly/3Xl28G3
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Catherine McKenna
9 months ago
Oh yeah!! β€οΈπ¨π¦πͺβ€οΈπ¨π¦πͺβ€οΈπ¨π¦πͺβ€οΈπ¨π¦πͺβ€οΈπ¨π¦πͺβ€οΈπ¨π¦πͺβ€οΈπ¨π¦πͺβ€οΈπ¨π¦β€οΈπͺπ¨π¦β€οΈπͺπ¨π¦β€οΈπͺπ¨π¦β€οΈπͺπ¨π¦β€οΈπͺπ¨π¦β€οΈπͺπ¨π¦β€οΈπͺπ¨π¦β€οΈπͺπ¨π¦β€οΈπͺπ¨π¦β€οΈπͺπ¨π¦β€οΈπͺπ¨π¦β€οΈπͺπ¨π¦β€οΈπͺπ¨π¦β€οΈπͺπ¨π¦β€οΈπͺπ¨π¦β€οΈπͺπ¨π¦β€οΈπͺπ¨π¦β€οΈπͺπ¨π¦β€οΈπͺπ¨π¦β€οΈπͺπ¨π¦β€οΈπͺπ¨π¦β€οΈπͺπ¨π¦β€οΈπͺπ¨π¦β€οΈπͺπ¨π¦β€οΈπͺπ¨π¦β€οΈπͺπ¨π¦β€οΈπͺπ¨π¦β€οΈπͺπ¨π¦β€οΈπͺπ¨π¦β€οΈπͺπ¨π¦β€οΈπͺπ¨π¦π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯π₯
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Mama Doc
10 months ago
For day 4 of Black History Month, there may be no woman who has made a bigger historical impact than Henrietta Lacks. Born in 1920, she was found to have cervical cancer at the age of 31. The cells in the biopsy were discovered to double every 20-24 hours. Up until then, it was impossible /1
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10 months ago
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Matthew Boyd
about 1 year ago
My dad always took my brother and I fishing. It was awesome. I was so exited I could barely sleep the night before. That's him cleaning a fish behinds us. Me returning the favor 40 years later.
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Do Amercians realize that this does not happen in the rest of the world? Just wondering from π¨π¦ ...
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AndrΓ© Picard @picardonhealth
12 months ago
Terry Fox will be the next Canadian featured on the $5 bill. The athlete and activist will be replacing Sir Wilfrid Laurier who will now appear on the next version of the $50 note, by Clarrie Feinstein
www.thestar.com/news/terry-f...
via
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Terry Fox will be the next Canadian featured on the $5 bill
The athlete and activist will be replacing Sir Wilfrid Laurier who will now appear on the next version of the $50 note.
https://www.thestar.com/news/terry-fox-will-be-the-next-canadian-featured-on-the-5-bill/article_00a74e46-bbf3-11ef-be05-23925e074af7.html
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My favorite day as a professor! Congrats to the new grads
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12 months ago
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Jehannine (J9) Austin
12 months ago
Fantastic thread β¦ yay science. Saving lives! Aside: somewhat jarring to immediately note that 13/15 are men authors β¦
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Michelle Ploughman
about 1 year ago
First day of π¨π¦ Stroke Congress
#Calgary
and all the superstars are here.
@sandyb-reachlab.bsky.social
@lboyd47.bsky.social
fangirling here! Epic.
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https://strokecongress.canadianstroke.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Canadian-Stroke-Congress-Program.pdf
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Liisa Galea
about 1 year ago
Our latest review-with
@bonniee-leee.bsky.social
where we pour our β€οΈπ§ & soul to outline our position on why we are so passionate about harnessing the power of sex differences & within sex diff to propel precision medicine forward let us know if we convince you
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Leveraging research into sex differences and steroid hormones to improve brain health - Nature Reviews Endocrinology
This Review outlines how the effects of steroid hormones on hippocampal neuroplasticity across the adult lifespan differ between the sexes, highlighting the importance of considering sex and steroid h...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41574-024-01061-0
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BrainBehaviourLab
about 1 year ago
What happens when a field includes mostly men and males in research? We have clinical guidelines that may not apply to females or women. Check it out in our new paper:
academic.oup.com/ptj/advance-...
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Chronic Underrepresentation of Females and Women in Stroke Research Adversely Impacts Clinical Care
Abstract. Unequal sex and gender sample sizes in rehabilitation studies have implications for the generalizability of the evidence and for the clinicians t
https://academic.oup.com/ptj/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/ptj/pzae155/7906302?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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BrainBehaviourLab
about 1 year ago
Check out our new paper showing how gamified tasks can be used for stroke rehabilitation!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Gamified Practice Improves Paretic Arm Motor Behavior in Individuals With Stroke - Cristina Rubino, Bimal Lakhani, Beverley C. Larssen, Sarah N. Kraeutner, Justin W. Andrushko, Michael R. Borich, Lara...
Background Stroke is a heterogeneous condition, making choice of treatment, and determination of how to structure rehabilitation outcomes diο¬cult. Individualize...
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15459683241286449
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Senator Ron Wyden
about 1 year ago
Democrats have the majority for less than two more months. I'll be using every second to push for passage of my PRESS Act to protect journalists from government spying and surveillance.
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Liisa Galea
about 1 year ago
What Iβve wanted to say but never had the nerveβ¦ HT Jesse Lacasse
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Micah G. Allen
about 1 year ago
By popular demand, I have begun making a cognitive neuroscience starter pack. If you scan brains, you can be on it!
go.bsky.app/2n84SRM
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Talia Lerner
about 1 year ago
A starter pack! Some of my favorite women in neuroscience (sorry if I forgot you, I will add!)
go.bsky.app/SCFmKoC
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Hi all - my name is Lara and I am a neuroscientist who uses MRI and TMS to map change in the human brain as we learn and also during recovery after stroke. Check out this gorgeous image - it is my brain mapped with diffusion imaging in the MRI. π§ͺπ§
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