Lara A. Boyd

This study investigates how physiological arousal and motor control strategies adapt during repeated split-belt walking, finding reduced arousal and adaptation in later blocks.

CALM-VLM improves confidence and reliability in brain MRI classification by calibrating vision-language models and enabling selective prediction.

This study finds sex differences in brain activation during motor imagery after stroke, with females showing greater sensorimotor activation and males greater cerebellar and parietal activation.

This study investigates how spatially congruent cues affect the stability of asymmetric rhythmic bimanual movements, finding that their benefits depend on movement frequency and strategy.

This study finds that females show smaller brain activation volumes and lower inter-subject variability during motor tasks compared to males, using fMRI data.

This study compares data-driven and theory-based biomarkers for predicting chronic motor outcomes after stroke, finding data-driven models perform better, especially when using structural disconnection measures.

This study examines if high intensity aerobic exercise with motor training improves cognitive-motor function and functional connectivity in chronic stroke patients, finding improved processing speed and reduced connectivity.

This study finds that smaller ipsilesional hippocampal volume is associated with worse upper limb sensorimotor impairment in chronic stroke patients, with a stronger effect in women.

This study shows that global brain health, measured by brain age, influences post-stroke sensorimotor outcomes and mediates the effect of lesion damage.

This study examines how skilled motor practice affects myelin plasticity in stroke patients using multi-component relaxation imaging, finding increased myelin water fraction in specific brain regions after training.

This study finds that smaller spared subcortical nuclei are linked to worse sensorimotor outcomes after stroke, varying by time since stroke and type of impairment.

Exercise improves resting state functional connectivity in older adults without enhancing motor learning.

This review examines automatic reactions to exercise and sedentary behaviors, finding physical activity as a reward but limited evidence for sedentary behaviors as a reward.