Academic Departments
Professional Doctorate in Health and Social Care Disciplines
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Dr. Louise Turner
Title: Dr.
Qualifications: PhD, MSc. Physiology
Department: School of Health Sciences & Social Work
Address: St. Michael’s Building, Room 2.30
Email:
louise.turner@port.ac.uk
What is your role on the Professional Doctorate?
Research Supervision
What is your background?
Whole body physiology, Neuroscience, Neurophysiology, pain physiology & cardiac physiology
What are your research interests?
The effect of warming upon the electrophysiological characteristics of the median and ulnar nerves in healthy subjects and subjects with carpal tunnel syndrome
Using virtual reality to aid speed and degree recovery following stroke
Training and the effects upon the nervous system in the healthy adult during the performance of movement
How many times have you supervised as:-
Director of Studies (completed supervisions only) - 0
2nd Supervisor (completed supervisions only) - 0
Publications (up to three)
Finger movement attenuates cutaneomuscular reflexes recorded from the first dorsal interosseous muscle in man. Turner, L.C.; Harrison, L.M.; Stephens, J.A & Mulki, O. 2001. Proceedings of The Journal of Physiology. P533. Communication presented to the Physiological Society, Oxford University, March, 2001.
Finger movement is associated with attenuated cutaneous reflexes recorded from human first dorsal interosseous muscle. Turner, L.C.; Harrison, L.M. & Stephens, J.A. Journal of Physiology. 2002. 542.2. 559 - 566.
Cutaneomuscular responsiveness of the first dorsal interosseous muscle to distant stimulation is altered in chronic partial median nerve entrapment at the wrist in man. Turner, L.C.; Harrison, L.M. & Stephens, J.A. Proceedings of The Journal of Physiology. P547. Communication presented to the Physiological Society, University College London, December, 2002.
Current Projects
Task- dependent changes in cutaneous reflexes recorded from the first dorsal interosseous muscle during attentive and non-attentive finger movement in man
Past Projects
The ‘gating’ effects of natural skin stimulation on the electrically evoked somatosensory cortical evoked potential
Normative studies of flash visual evoked potential
Suggestion techniques and pseudoseizures
Angelmann’s syndrome and neurophysiological changes in the EEG
MESES and behaviour/sleep pattern changes in children