A novel biological neural network to reveal the cause of locomotion deficits in Parkinson’s

Associate Professor

Technical University of Denmark

Silvia Tolu, associate professor, Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, has been awarded a Lundbeck Foundation LF Experiments research grant worth DKK 1,992,896.85.

Her project seeks to develop an analytical model for describing in new detail how declining levels of the dopamine neurotransmitter may cause a breakdown in the networks of neurons in the brain that are involved in movement. And, thus, how they cause the difficulty in movement, including a tendency to "freezing”, experienced by Parkinson's patients.