Philip Cho
Program: Unspecified
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Undergraduate university: Duke University
Research summary
Skilled reaching movements are frequently compromised after stroke, yet current methods for studying these movements — especially those involving bimanual coordination — are limited. In rodents, rope-pulling has recently gained renewed interest as an alternative to overcome the limitations of currently used methods, given its ethologically-grounded nature and ease of tracking. In this lab rotation, I am building an experimental setup that implements this rope-pulling task in mice, and I am developing a pipeline to automate the tracking and analysis of forepaw movements during the task. These components can be utilized to later study the behavioral effects of post-stroke recovery and interventions, as well as their associations with neural connectivity and function.
Graduate publications