Prof. Meir Plotnik
The center of advanced technologies in rehabilitation (CATR) is a highly multidisciplinary center at the crossroad between the fields of motor control and locomotion, cognitive neuroscience, neuro-rehabilitation and engineering. We investigate action and perception mechanisms in healthy and clinical populations. For this, we use a unique experimental set-up which integrates 360 virtual-reality environments with simultaneous recordings of electrophysiological signals (e.g., EEG) and kinematics. Our aim is to shed further light on the complex system dynamics giving raise to human behaviors, with a special focus on the role of movement in shaping/modulating human interactions with the external world. Being located at the Sheba Medical Center, we combines studies with clinical populations such as people with Parkinson’s, stroke or Alzheimer diseases, to advance our understanding of learning behaviors under pathological conditions as well as to develop cutting-edge research-based motor rehabilitation guidelines and/or real-world applications.
Brain Disorders Research
Clinical Neuroscience
Cognitive Neuroscience
- Porras, D. C., Siemonsma, P., Inzelberg, R., Zeilig, G., & Plotnik, M. (2018). Advantages of virtual reality in the rehabilitation of balance and gait: systematic review. Neurology, 90(22), 1017-1025. https://n.neurology.org/content/90/22/1017
- Miron-Shahar, Y., Kantelhardt, J. W., Grinberg, A., Hassin-Baer, S., Blatt, I., Inzelberg, R., & Plotnik, M. (2019). Excessive phase synchronization in cortical activation during locomotion in persons with Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism & related disorders, 65, 210-216. https://bit.ly/2UECX0l
- Meir, P., Wagner, J. M., Gautam, A., Amihai, G., & Naismith, R. T. (2020). Gait asymmetry, and bilateral coordination of gait during a six-minute walk test in persons with multiple sclerosis. Scientific Reports (Nature Publisher Group), 10(1). https://bit.ly/3nFvx9T
- Porras, D. C., Zeilig, G., Doniger, G. M., Bahat, Y., Inzelberg, R., & Plotnik, M. (2020). Seeing gravity: gait adaptations to visual and physical inclines–A virtual reality study. Frontiers in neuroscience, 13, 1308. https://bit.ly/36JhOYx
- Rosenblum, U., Kribus-Shmiel, L., Zeilig, G., Bahat, Y., Kimel-Naor, S., Melzer, I., & Plotnik, M. (2020). Novel methodology for assessing total recovery time in response to unexpected perturbations while walking. PloS one, 15(6), e0233510.
- Heimler, B., Koren, O., Inzelberg, R., Rosenblum, U., Hassin-Baer, S., Zeilig, G., Bartsch, R. P., & Plotnik, M. (2023). Heart-rate variability as a new marker for freezing predisposition in Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism & related disorders, 105476. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.parkreldis.2023.105476
- Plotnik, M., Ben-Gal, O., Doniger, G. M., Gottlieb, A., Bahat, Y., Cohen, M., Kimel-Naor, S., Zeilig, G., & Beeri, M. S. (2021). Multimodal immersive trail making-virtual reality paradigm to study cognitive-motor interactions. Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation, 18(1), 82. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12984-021-00849-9
