Research done in the Human Sensorimotor Control Lab directed by Professor Jürgen Konczak, Ph.D. was featured in an article by the College of Veterinary Sciences at Michigan State University as part of their “Vetschool Tails” blog. In a collaboration with Dr. Stephanie Valberg at MSU,  Dr. Joshua Aman, a post-doctoral associate in the Department of Neurology at UMN, conducted research on equine shivers, a rare neuromuscular disorder affecting horses. Dr. Aman is an alumni of the School of Kinesiology, and graduated in 2012. To test the muscle recruitment pattern of a variety of horses with and without shivers, the researchers studied horses at the MSU McPhail Equine Performance Center using EMG techniques to measure muscle activity.

Read the full article here.