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Shanie A. Jayasinghe, PhD

Assistant Professor
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, United States

I am a neuroscientist and biomedical engineer whose mission is to study mechanisms of upper limb motor control in order to develop personalized tools that improve neurorehabilitation outcomes. As a tenure-track Assistant Professor and Director of the Movement Control and Rehabilitation lab at the University of Minnesota, I focus my work on the study of movement control in chronic stroke survivors and older adults. I am particularly interested in studying the interaction between cognitive and motor execution processes to advance the field of motor neuroscience and also enable the development of evidence-based movement rehabilitation strategies that help improve the quality of life of stroke survivors.

I completed my undergraduate studies in Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, followed by a Masters and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California. I completed a postdoc in Kinesiology at Michigan State University and a second postdoc in Neurology at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine.

As an early-stage investigator with an established record of productivity, I have expertise in motor neuroscience research involving stroke survivors. During my postdoctoral training, I studied ipsilesional arm (i.e., less impaired arm) motor deficits in chronic stroke survivors with severe hemiparesis. I also studied the role of sensory feedback in movement by examining movement in an individual with peripheral deafferentation. These studies provided further evidence of how specialized motor control processes from each hemisphere (i.e., lateralization) combined to produce accurate movement. My recent work, supported by an NICHD-funded R21, has been focused on understanding how cognitive load affects specialized motor processes in each hemisphere after stroke. I continue to study cognitive-motor interactions during both unimanual and bimanual movement.

Complete List of Published Work in MyBibliography:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/shanie.jayasinghe.1/bibliography/public/

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