Johnny Parr

🚶First up, what is Dyspraxia/DCD? 🚶

Check out this infographic designed by our lab earlier this year to learn more! What fact surprised you the most?

See below or read it here: drive.google.com/file/d/10hQM...

#Dyspraxia/DCD #Research #DyspraxiaAwarenessWeek

YouTube video by The DCD Project Dyspraxia!

It's Dyspraxia Awareness Week!

Please share this information video we commissioned from dyspraxic animator Charlotte O'Neill, explaining a bit about dyspraxia (aka developmental coordination disorder). The video is suitable for school-aged kids, so share widely.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pamE...

Dyspraxia: why children with developmental coordination disorder in the UK are still being failed Nearly one in 20 UK children have DCD, also known as dyspraxia, but most wait years for a diagnosis.

Nearly one in 20 UK children have DCD, also known as dyspraxia, but most wait years for a diagnosis.

DCD-UK was excellent as always! Such a great community of researchers, practitioners, and those with lived experience!

Highlight reel from @ispgr.bsky.social 👇🏻
Had such a great time sharing our research and catching up with these awesome people!

🚨 Post-Doctoral Researcher Required 🚨
12-month position using EEG to explore the cortical control of balance recovery in children with and without Developmental Coordination Disorder. Advert below! manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...

🚨 Post-Doctoral Researcher Required 🚨
12-month position using EEG to explore the cortical control of balance recovery in children with and without Developmental Coordination Disorder. Advert below! manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...

🧠 Understanding #Dyspraxia: Insights for Employers & Educators
📍 Brunel University London
🗓 8 July | 3:30–6:30 PM
🎟️ Free event – register: shorturl.at/0RqJT

Join us for research insights, personal stories & the premiere of Dys is Me 🎬

Do you have #DCD and want to share your insights?
Do you work with people with DCD and want to be more #inclusive?
Are you an #educator?

Join us 👇👇👇

Is PowerPoint still the go-to for making conference posters, or is there something better these days? Been a while…

Effects of movement-specific reinvestment on upper-limb prosthesis control and user experience Prosthetic hand devices are frequently abandoned as they are difficult to use and impose high mental workload upon users. However, researchers are yet to establish whether personality factors might...

Can prosthetic hand control and acceptance be influenced by personality?

The tendency to engage in conscious control (Reinvestment) is seemingly associated with worse outcomes for prosthetic hand users.

Great new study from our amazing PhD student!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A “Conscious” Loss of Balance: Directing Attention to Movement Can Impair the Cortical Response to Postural Perturbations “Trying too hard” can interfere with skilled movement, such as sports and music playing. Postural control can similarly suffer when conscious attention is directed toward it (“conscious movement proce...

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)!
www.jneurosci.org/content/44/4...

I’ll send him an email! Looking forward to the paper. Any chance your talk is being recorded? Also…heard Exeter away day is returning 2025 🙌🏻…

Have my first PPI group discussion next week! Do you go into these with any formal structure? I have an agenda of items I want feedback on, but mostly going to vibe it. Also wondering how to more formally report the PPI process in the papers that follow?

Prof Wolfson get tasked back to X

I will gate keep anything at this point to keep it interesting

Maybe just a time thing. But right now obviously getting far less here..

Blue sky: the intentions feel good but in truth it seems to suck compared to twitter. Am I wrong?

Interesting implications for fall risk in the elderly -- can imagine after an index fall that people exert CMP when walking and worsen their gait

Thank you! 🙏🏻

First 'proper' post here (and a lazy quote repost at that :D). New paper published in J Neuroscience. Here we explore the neural mechanisms underpinning the paradoxical decreases in stability that occur when people try to consciously control balance. www.jneurosci.org/content/44/4...

Paradoxically – it seems that trying too hard to maximise “current” stability reduces the cortex’s ability to effectively respond to future losses of balance. @tobyellmers.bsky.social @elmarkal.bsky.social

A “Conscious” Loss of Balance: Directing Attention to Movement Can Impair the Cortical Response to Postural Perturbations “Trying too hard” can interfere with skilled movement, such as sports and music playing. Postural control can similarly suffer when conscious attention is directed toward it (“conscious movement proce...

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)!
www.jneurosci.org/content/44/4...