Rajal科恩 joined the bet365亚洲官网 faculty in 2012, following a postdoctoral fellowship at Oregon 健康 & Science University where she worked to untangle the complex relationship between cognitive and motor symptoms in 帕金森病. 在宾夕法尼亚州立大学读研究生期间, 她专注于如何年轻, healthy people plan and carry out everyday movements including reaching, 指出, 和投掷. 在那之前，博士. 科恩 trained in the Alexander Technique and had a private practice in rural Virginia, 帮助运动员, 表演艺术家, and people with musculoskeletal pain learn to live in their bodies with greater power and ease. This experience inspired her decision to pursue a career investigating the mind-body connection. Dr. 科恩’s research program in the 心动实验室 incorporates elements from all of these previous career stages.

• Cognitive and neural factors underlying control of 姿势和动作
• Causes and consequences of musculoskeletal pain
• Mechanisms and effectiveness of mind-body interventions
• Motor and non-motor aspects of Parkinson's disease

• 约翰逊,米.B. & 科恩,R.G. (2023). Altered coordination strategies during upright stance and gait in teachers of the Alexander Technique. 老龄化前沿，4, 1090087.
• *贝尔,J. L.瓦萨瓦达，A., & 科恩,R. G. (2022). Posture biofeedback increases cognitive load. 心理学研究，86, 1892-1903.
• 科恩,R.G.*贝尔，J.L.*拉维昌德拉，R.*克拉尔，D. 麦高文,C.P., & 水银地震计,T.W. (2020). 放松! Postural instructions affect static and dynamic balance in healthy older adults. 老龄化的创新，64岁, igz056. PMID 32226825
• *贝尔,J.L.瓦萨瓦达，A., & 科恩,R.G. (2019). Anticipation and inhibition affect neck posture. 人体运动科学, 108-122. PMID 30710861
• *贝克J.J.科普兰.L.*博特布希E.L., & 科恩,R.G. (2018). 可行性初步证据, 功效, and mechanisms of Alexander technique group classes for chronic 颈部疼痛. Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 39, 80–86. PMID 30012397
• 科恩,R.G.瓦萨瓦达，A.N.威斯特，M., & Schmitter-Edgecombe, M. (2016). Mobility and upright posture are associated with different aspects of cognition in older adults. 老龄神经科学前沿，8:257. PMID 27877123
• 彼得森,D.S.金·L.A., 科恩,R.G., & 霍,F.B. (2016). Cognitive contributions to freezing of gait in Parkinson disease – Implications for physical rehabilitation. 物理治疗杂志，1996, 659-670. PMID 26381808

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• 关于人们如何坐的基础研究, 立场。, and move; how accurately they can detect position and movement; how impulsive they are; and self-reports of mindfulness, 颈部疼痛, 活动水平. 其中一些研究还包括脑电图.

• Embodied cognition experiments in which we manipulate posture and measure the effects on task performance.

• Intervention studies that apply a mind-body approach to address diverse conditions including 颈部疼痛, 帕金森病, 照顾者压力.

• Co-founder and primary contributor to a website devoted to improving scientific under立场。ing of the Alexander Technique (AT) - its principles, 实践, 报告和证明的好处, 和术语. The content ranges from descriptions of direct experiments on the effects of AT lessons to focused explanations of relevant current science to rigorously researched history of the work. http://www.alexandertechniquescience.com/
• Scientific consultant for an organization devoted to bringing principles of adaptive movement and posture to those who can use them. Projects include applying for grants from foundations and delivering and testing group courses (both in-person and online) for adults caring for a family member with a neurodegenerative disease. http://www.thepoiseproject.org/the-poise-project-challenge

• U of I 办公室 of 研究 and Economic Development 研究 Equipment and Infrastructure Support Award, Electroencephalography (EEG) System for Investigating Neural Correlates of Cognition and Action, 2018
• Undergraduate Collaborative 研究 Key Grant, 2016
• Kurt Olsson Early Career 研究 Fellowship, A Non-Exercise Intervention to Improve Balance in the Elderly, 2014
• bet365亚洲官网 Seed Grant, Movement Planning, Impulse Control, and Forward Head Posture, 2013
• Undergraduate Collaborative 研究 Key Grant, 2013
• OHSU post-doc paper of the year, runner-up, 2011
• Penn State College of Liberal 艺术 论文 Award, 2008
• Penn State University Graduate Fellowship, 2002-2005

• Mountain West 研究 Consortium CTR-IN Pilot Project Enhancement Grant, An online course to improve the motor symptoms in rural older adults with Parkinson's, 2020
• Mountain West 研究 Consortium CTR-IN Pilot Grant, Lighten Up: Modifying Postural State to Reduce Fall Risk, 2015
• NIH Post-Doctoral Training Fellowship in Complementary and Integrative Medicine, 2010-2012
• NIH-sponsored Training Course in fMRI, 2009