Computational models permit individualised, co-created rehabilitation based on environmental and lifestyle factors. Multi-sensory stimuli allow digital experiences to be perceived as real, and this sense of “presence” in an augmented world can have drug-like effects. Such mind-body illusions can be implemented as a person-centred version of precision medicine. In this talk we will discuss how such approaches might be used in the rehabilitation of chronic neurological disorders, such as functional dizziness, chronic pain, and stroke, and how they may, in tun, inform underlying behavioural mechanisms of disease.

Speaker: Dr Diego Kaski

Diego Kaski is an international leader in Vestibular Neuroscience, with major publications in high-impact journals. He set up and heads the Centre for Behavioural and Vestibular Neurosciences within the Department of Clinical and Motor Neurosciences at UCL, leading an active group of research exploring the neural mechanisms of spatial orientation and multisensory integration, with a strong translational element that aims to develop novel clinical biomarkers and therapies for vestibular disorders.

Limited spaces in the Basement Lecture Theatre, 33 Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG and virtually via Zoom (ZOOM LINK WILL BE SENT VIA EMAIL CLOSER TO THE EVENT).

Enquiries to: cnr@ucl.ac.uk