Simulation Reveals How the Body Repairs Balance
From: Tech Briefs - 11/01/2007

When your brain's neural pathways are impaired through injury, age, or
illness, muscles are deprived of the sensory information they need to perform
the constant balancing act required for normal movement and standing. In a
project designed to build robots that can balance like humans, researchers at
Georgia Tech and Emory University have created a computer simulation that
sheds new light on how the nervous system reinvents its communication with
muscles after sensory loss. The project could help better diagnose and
rehabilitate patients with balance problems by retraining their muscles. 

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Links:
Simulation Reveals How Body Repairs Balance
http://www.gatech.edu/news-room/release.php?id=1515

Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and
   Emory University 
http://www.bme.gatech.edu/

Lena Ting's Neuromechanics Lab
http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/groups/ting/index.html