Centre of Experimental Medicine SAS
Topic
Postural regulation and its changes due to motor and anxiety disorders
PhD. program
Medical Neurosciences
Year of admission
2025
Name of the supervisor
RNDr. Diana Bzdúšková, PhD.
Contact:
Receiving school
Faculty of Medicine Comenius University
Annotation
In everyday life, we are constantly confronted with numerous situations in which individual sensory systems provide conflicting or ambiguous information and with new postural tasks to which we must adapt. Sensory integration plays a key role and the research of its mechanisms is very important for the assessment of balance control, especially in populations that are more prone to the risk of falling, i.e., in the elderly and patients with motor, cognitive or anxiety deficits. Appropriate motor or sensory intervention can help these vulnerable groups to improve impaired balance and thus prevent falls, subsequent injuries and loss of independence. The aim of the PhD. thesis will be to characterize the mechanisms of sensory regulation in maintaining balance under various sensory conditions, with the option to focus on motor or cognitive disorders, and to define indicators of postural stability that most sensitively reflect changes in balance regulation.