Students will be involved in nutrition research primarily related to intermittent fasting, meal timing, type 2 diabetes, and obesity. Students also may assist with research on the effect of food groups on diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Read more: Research on Intermittent Fasting, Meal Timing, and Food Groups
We are a motor control physiology laboratory that uses motion capture, force plates, and electromyography to study underlying mechanisms that impact walking and balance capability after stroke. Students will participate in one of our ongoing studies and help collect, analyze, and communicate data.
426 older (≥65 yrs.) survivors of a loco-regionally staged cancer with a good prognosis (≥ 80% 5-yr. survival) and with at least one physical function limitation will be recruited throughout Alabama and randomized to 1-of-2 study arms: 1) one that receives a 1-year mentored vegetable gardening intervention that pairs a cancer survivor with a certified Master Gardener; or 2) a wait-list control arm that receives the intervention after a 1-year delay. All participants will be followed for 2 years.
Read more: The Harvest for Health Vegetable Gardening Intervention in Older Cancer Survivors
The focus of my research laboratory is to study peripheral and central mechanisms of spinal manipulation and spinal mobilization.
The Exercise Neuroscience Research Laboratory (ENRL) is dedicated to promoting physical activity in persons with neurological disorders, particularly multiple sclerosis (MS). The ENRL, co-directed by Professors Motl and Sandroff, currently has upwards of 10 ongoing projects involving various studies of physical activity in persons with MS.
Read more: Physical activity in persons with multiple sclerosis