Title: Age-­dependent deterioration of proprioceptive feedback and its role in postural instability

Speaker: Kenzie McKinnon, MSc Student, Department of Medical Neuroscience, Dalhousie University

Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Time: 11:30am - 12:30pm  

Location: Theatre C, Tupper Building

Description: In the aging population, fall related injuries costs the Canadian health millions of dollars annually. This is due to an increased locomotor instability with age. One of the contributing factors to this age-related instability is a decline in proprioceptive sensation in the legs. My project is exploring if this phenomena is apparent in the aging mouse. I am looking at how stability changes when proprioceptive information is acutely ablated from reaching the spinal cord at multiple ages and how that is reflected in kinematic derived measures for stability.