Barbara Quaney, PT, PhD

Research Funding

Veterans Administration, "Reaching and Grasping with Visula Scotomas", (Quaney, Co-PI), 3/1/2008 - 3/1/2001, $712,000 Direct Cost.
Goal: Determine the patterns of motor control in indiciduals with visual scotomas and other visual field deficits.

Magistro Grant, "The Mechanism of Neuromuscular electricl stimulation on individuals with Chronic Stroke, (Quaney, PI), 5/1/2006-6/30/2008, $40,000 Direct Cost.
Goal: Pilot clinical trial to determine the mechanism of neuromuscular electrical stimulation within the periperal nervouse system that allows individuals with stroke to improve motor performance.

NIH NICHD K01 HD047148-01 A1, “Motor Performance and Cortical Changes in Chronic Stroke”, (Quaney, PI), Projected funding date 1/05-2009, $580,000 Total Costs.
Goal: Determine the neural regions underlying force modulation for grasping and manipulating objects after stroke.

AHA 0530208N, (American Heart Association), National Scientist Development Grant, “The Effect of Aerobic Fitness on Executive Function for Cognitive and Motor Tasks in Individuals with Chronic Stroke”, (Quaney, PI), 2005-2008, $286,000 Total Costs.
Goal: Determine the effects of attaining cardiovascular fitness on executive function underlying cognitive and motor performance in individuals with chronic stroke.

Center on Aging Endowment Grant, KUMC, G550758, “Fingertip Force Generation When Grasping Objects with the Ipsilesional Hand after Stroke”, (Quaney, PI), 2003-2005, $16,000 Total Costs.
Goal: Determine the motor control in ‘unaffected’ hand following chronic middle cerebral artery stroke in humans.

NIH NICHD 1 T32 HD07523-01A, (Nudo, PI), Neural Bases of Motor Dysfunction and Rehabilitation, Post-Doctoral Trainee
Promotion of Doctoral Studies Grant and Scholarship, Physical Therapy Foundation, Inc., “Investigations of the Memory Systems Underlying Predictive Fingertip Forces during Precision Grip”, (Quaney, PI), 2001-2002, $15,000 Total Costs.
Goal: Determine the environmental and object variables critical for the memory underlying anticipatory force control during object manipulation.

Committee on Institutional Cooperation, WISE (Women in Science and Engineering Society, National), “Evidence that the Memory Underlying Grasping is Based Upon the Motor Commands” (Quaney, PI), 2001, $800 Total Costs.
Goal: Determine the motor memory underlying object manipulation.

Committee on Institutional Cooperation, WISE (Women in Science and Engineering Society, National), “Anticipatory Control of Fingertip Forces during Sequential Lifts: Memory for Motor Commands or Object Properties?”. (Quaney, PI) 2000, $750 Total Costs.
Goal: Determine the motor memory underlying skilled grasping using feedforward control.