BOWLING GREEN, Ky., Sept. 22 -- Western Kentucky University issued the following news release:
Dr. Patrick Ledwidge, Assistant Professor in the WKU Department of Psychological Sciences, has been awarded a prestigious four-year grant projected at $600,968 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Funded through the NIH R16 Support for Research Excellence (SuRE) First program by the National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal, and Skin Diseases, the award will support innovative research examining how cognitive and motor brain processes influence injury risk during high-speed athletic maneuvers.
The project, titled "Electrocortical Dynamics of Reactive Gait Adjustment Biomechanics," combines mobile electroencephalography (EEG) and...