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  • 2016 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)

Overview

Lena H. Ting is affiliated with Emory University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research intersecting medicine, neuroscience, and engineering. Their work spans multiple subfields including biomedical engineering, physical therapy, sports therapy and rehabilitation, cognitive neuroscience, neurology, and psychiatry and mental health.

The principal research topics explored by the scientist include balance, gait, and falls prevention; muscle activation and electromyography studies; cerebral palsy and movement disorders; motor control and adaptation; botulinum toxin and related neurological disorders; stroke rehabilitation and recovery; and vestibular and auditory disorders.

Major recent publications include:

  • Diverse and complex muscle spindle afferent firing properties emerge from multiscale muscle mechanics, 2020, eLife
  • Exoskeletons need to react faster than physiological responses to improve standing balance, 2023, Science Robotics
  • Worse balance is associated with larger perturbation-evoked cortical responses in healthy young adults, 2020, Gait & Posture
  • Cortical Engagement Metrics During Reactive Balance Are Associated With Distinct Aspects of Balance Behavior in Older Adults, 2021, Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
  • An approximate stochastic optimal control framework to simulate nonlinear neuro-musculoskeletal models in the presence of noise, 2022, PLoS Computational Biology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Lena H. Ting include Aiden M. Payne, Friedl De Groote, Jente Willaert, Kaat Desloovere, and Anja Van Campenhout.

Common publication venues for this scientist's work encompass:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Neurophysiology
  • Gait & Posture
  • PLoS Computational Biology
  • Experimental Physiology

Lena H. Ting received the honor of Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Merging of Healthy Motor Modules Predicts Reduced Locomotor Performance and Muscle Coordination Complexity Post-Stroke

    David J. Clark;Lena H. Ting;Felix E. Zajac;Richard R. Neptune

  • A Limited Set of Muscle Synergies for Force Control During a Postural Task

    Lena H. Ting;Jane M. Macpherson

  • Muscle Synergies Characterizing Human Postural Responses

    Gelsy Torres-Oviedo;Lena H. Ting

  • Muscle Synergy Organization Is Robust Across a Variety of Postural Perturbations

    Gelsy Torres-Oviedo;Jane M. Macpherson;Lena H. Ting

  • Neuromechanics of muscle synergies for posture and movement

    Lena H Ting;J Lucas McKay

  • Neuromechanical Principles Underlying Movement Modularity and Their Implications for Rehabilitation

    Lena H. Ting;Lena H. Ting;Hillel J. Chiel;Randy D. Trumbower;Randy D. Trumbower;Jessica L. Allen

  • Leg design in hexapedal runners

    R J Full;R Blickhan;L H Ting

  • Muscle Synergies: Implications for Clinical Evaluation and Rehabilitation of Movement

    Seyed A. Safavynia;Gelsy Torres-Oviedo;Lena H. Ting

  • Common muscle synergies for balance and walking

    Stacie A. Chvatal;Lena H. Ting

  • Dynamic and static stability in hexapedal runners

    L. H. Ting;Reinhard Blickhan;Robert J Full

  • Subject-Specific Muscle Synergies in Human Balance Control Are Consistent Across Different Biomechanical Contexts

    Gelsy Torres-Oviedo;Lena H. Ting

  • Optimal sensorimotor transformations for balance

    Daniel B Lockhart;Lena H Ting

  • Dimensional reduction in sensorimotor systems: A framework for understanding muscle coordination of posture

    Lena H. Ting

  • Accuracy of force and center of pressure measures of the Wii Balance Board

    Harrison L. Bartlett;Lena H. Ting;Jeffrey T. Bingham

  • Voluntary and reactive recruitment of locomotor muscle synergies during perturbed walking

    Stacie A. Chvatal;Lena Ting

  • A Feedback Model Reproduces Muscle Activity During Human Postural Responses to Support-Surface Translations

    Torrence D. J. Welch;Lena H. Ting

  • Common muscle synergies for control of center of mass and force in nonstepping and stepping postural behaviors

    Stacie A. Chvatal;Gelsy Torres-Oviedo;Seyed A. Safavynia;Lena H. Ting

  • The Brain in Its Body: Motor Control and Sensing in a Biomechanical Context

    Hillel J. Chiel;Lena H. Ting;Örjan Ekeberg;Mitra J Z Hartmann

  • Long-term training modifies the modular structure and organization of walking balance control

    Andrew Sawers;Jessica L. Allen;Lena H. Ting

  • Mechanisms of motor adaptation in reactive balance control.

    Torrence D. J. Welch;Lena H. Ting

  • A Feedback Model Explains the Differential Scaling of Human Postural Responses to Perturbation Acceleration and Velocity

    Torrence D. J. Welch;Lena H. Ting

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven A. Kautz
Steven A. Kautz Medical University of South Carolina
Timothy C. Cope
Timothy C. Cope Georgia Institute of Technology
Stephen P. DeWeerth
Stephen P. DeWeerth Lehigh University
Charles C. Kemp
Charles C. Kemp Georgia Institute of Technology
Greg Hajcak
Greg Hajcak Santa Clara University
Mark L. Latash
Mark L. Latash Pennsylvania State University
Mary P. Galea
Mary P. Galea University of Melbourne
Yuri P. Ivanenko
Yuri P. Ivanenko Collège de France
Elzbieta Jankowska
Elzbieta Jankowska University of Gothenburg
Francesco Lacquaniti
Francesco Lacquaniti University of Rome Tor Vergata

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