Sir Henry Wellcome Fellow @ Imperial College London. Interested in balance control, emotion, attention, and ageing.
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Joined October 2015
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Our new framework describing how fear of falling turns maladaptive (from protective) is finally out in @Age_and_Ageing. Final paper from my Fellowship with @willyoungexeter and @markwilson_psy (and @Elmar_Kal). Probably the one I am most proud of. academic.oup.com/ageing/arti…
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Older individuals who had more positive self-perceptions of aging at baseline were better protected against negative physical consequences following a subsequent fall. #geriatrics agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
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Can a brainstem reflex tell us how well you balance?
Our new study shows that prepulse inhibition varies with postural load—opening the door to use PPI as a potential marker of postural control.
Read the preprint 👇
dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-…
#gait #balance #neurophysiology
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Dr @Toby_Ellmers from @ImperialBrains spoke to @BBCRadioScot on research which finds there is a strong association between an older person’s view of how they are #ageing and how well they will physically recover after a fall.
🎧Listen from 54mins
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Dr Toby Ellmers (@Toby_Ellmers) who co-led the study, said:
“Those who expressed more positive feelings about their own ageing seemed to be protected against worse physical consequences after a fall.
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Why is recovering from a loss of balance sometimes harder when we overthink it?
In our new EEG study (now out in Jneuro!), we show that consciously controlling balance dampens the cortical response to a sudden loss of balance (and balance gets worse)!
jneurosci.org/content/44/48/…
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Excited to share a paper looking at the relationship between perceived and actual balance, and how it relates to falls: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs…
Also, Andrew Hooyman made this cool interactive app based on the data! superg.shinyapps.io/Discorda…
@JK_Longhurst
@martima80
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Paradoxically – it seems that trying too hard to maximise “current” stability reduces the cortex’s ability to effectively respond to future losses of balance.
More to follow from the best team ever... @RSM_biomechs @Toby_Ellmers
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We did it. We killed neuro twitter and it's resuscitation it's happening somewhere else.
Come join us!
thetransmitter.org/community…
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Bluesky has now reached that sweet spot where the feed is much more engaging and interesting than it is here. I only visit twitter 1-2 times a week compared to Bsky multiple times a day now.
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This led them to develop the UP-COF, the Updated Perceived Control of Falling Scale, informed by older adults and clinicians - read more in their @Age_and_Ageing paper at academic.oup.com/ageing/arti…
#BGSconf
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But is concern about falling an independent risk factor for further falls, regardless of deconditioning etc? @Toby_Ellmers et al's upcoming systematic review (coming soon to @Age_and_Ageing) suggests so #BGSconf
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I’m happy to 📢that there are >=2 competitive #PhDstudent assistantships in Fall ’25. Please send me your CV, transcripts, and #research interests
@PhDVoice @ThePhDPlace #PhDposition #funding
@AUG_University #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #academicjobs
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Thank you to @KatieJSheehan & @Toby_Ellmers for a great symposium on concerns about falls - who is at risk & how we can manage it, especially as AHPs
Excellent overview, also, of the OUTDOOR mobility intervention - feasibility protocol here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3913…
#FFN2024
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Thrilled to share a long overdue reliability paper on the balance N1! The balance N1 is stable within an individual up to one year, is reliably measured within 6 trials, and can be obtained using a clinically feasible setup with simple preprocessing
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Check out my latest paper showing the balance N1 is larger in anxious kids. It's also correlated to the error-related negativity, and may offer a more reliable and controllable alternative to measuring error-related brain activity. #ERN sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Great work by Jasmine and team! Check it out!
Thrilled to share a long overdue reliability paper on the balance N1! The balance N1 is stable within an individual up to one year, is reliably measured within 6 trials, and can be obtained using a clinically feasible setup with simple preprocessing
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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*Dizziness is an independent predictor of future falls in older adults*
Important work from @Toby_Ellmers & Team 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Delighted to have published this systematic review from @Toby_Ellmers and colleagues on Dizziness in older adults and its links to higher risk of future falls doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afae1… imperial.ac.uk/news/256294/d…
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HOT OFF THE PRESS: OPEN ACCESS
Patients with worse disability respond best to cognitive functional therapy for chronic low back pain: a pre-planned secondary analysis of a randomised trial
@MarkHancockPT and team 👋👋👋
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Providing HOPE for people with chronic back pain - separating fact from myths. I have had so many thankful people contact me about this podcast. Please share it with your networks.
youtube.com/watch?v=U4RO8UjI…
