{"657681":{"#nid":"657681","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Go Inside Lena Ting\u2019s Neuromechanics Lab on Public TV\u2019s \u2018Your Fantastic Mind\u2019","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.emoryhealthcare.org\/your-fantastic-mind\/season-three\/Episode%203.html\u0022\u003Enewest episode of the public television program \u0026ldquo;Your Fantastic Mind\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/a\u003E takes viewers inside \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/neuromechanicslab.emory.edu\/index.html\u0022\u003ELena Ting\u0026rsquo;s lab\u003C\/a\u003E in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, where researchers are knocking subjects off balance to understand how we move.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe episode, \u0026ldquo;Game Changers,\u0026rdquo; shows how Ting and her colleagues use a unique moving platform to yank the rug from under subjects in their quest to study movement, human balance and gait, and the complex interplay of the nervous system and musculoskeletal system.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;You don\u0026rsquo;t think about balance,\u0026rdquo; Ting says in the episode. \u0026ldquo;However, it\u0026rsquo;s a super complex interaction of many parts of your brain, your nervous system, your muscles and sensory system, that is constantly shifting around without your awareness.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETing, \u003Ca href=\u0022\/bme\/faculty\/Lena-H.-Ting\u0022\u003EMcCamish Foundation Distinguished Chair and professor\u003C\/a\u003E, also explains how her team collects mountains of data about muscle activity and biomechanical forces alongside data from the brain to deepen our understanding of balance and movement disorders and find new ways to help people suffering from them.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.emoryhealthcare.org\/your-fantastic-mind\/season-three\/Episode%203.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWatch the full episode on the Emory Healthcare website.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe \u0026ldquo;Game Changers\u0026rdquo; episode shows how Ting\u0026#39;s team study movement, human balance, and gait.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The \u201cGame Changers\u201d episode shows how Ting\u0027s team study movement, human balance, and gait."}],"uid":"27446","created_gmt":"2022-04-27 16:09:46","changed_gmt":"2022-04-27 16:09:46","author":"Joshua Stewart","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-04-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-04-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"657678":{"id":"657678","type":"image","title":"Your Fantastic Mind TItle Screen","body":null,"created":"1651075587","gmt_created":"2022-04-27 16:06:27","changed":"1651075587","gmt_changed":"2022-04-27 16:06:27","alt":"Your Fantastic Mind title screen with outline of a brain in a box.","file":{"fid":"249267","name":"Your-Fantastic-Mind-Title-screenshot.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Your-Fantastic-Mind-Title-screenshot.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Your-Fantastic-Mind-Title-screenshot.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":276731,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Your-Fantastic-Mind-Title-screenshot.jpg?itok=nHDu7MFG"}}},"media_ids":["657678"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.emoryhealthcare.org\/your-fantastic-mind\/season-three\/Episode%203.html","title":"Your Fantastic Mind: Game Changers"},{"url":"https:\/\/neuromechanicslab.emory.edu\/index.html","title":"Ting\u0027s Neuromechanics Lab"}],"groups":[{"id":"1254","name":"Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomedical Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"2266","name":"Lena Ting"},{"id":"190452","name":"Your Fantastic Mind"},{"id":"249","name":"Biomedical Engineering"},{"id":"172970","name":"go-neuro"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jstewart@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJoshua Stewart\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCommunications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nWallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jstewart@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}