Michael Glassen, M.S.
Research Engineer
Email: mglassen@shp.rutgers.edu

Fares Yahya (Alshargie), Ph.D.
Research Associate II
Email: fares.yahya@rutgers.edu

Harshith Saligrama Ravindra
Graduate Assistant
Email: hs1110@scarletmail.rutgers.edu

Emily Peters, MPH
Research Coordinator
Email: petersen@shp.rutgers.edu

Grant Funding 

Title: Cognitive Integrated Motor Training to Improve Gait and Balance and Reduce Falls in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment

Role: Co-Principal Investigator

Sponsor Agency: National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research

Brief Overview of Aims: The project aims to improve Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairments gait & balance rehabilitation by shifting the focus from multifactorial motor-only training towards more comprehensive cognitive integrated motor training to better treat ambulation deficits.

Total Dollar Amount:

Funding Period:  09/01/2024- 08/31/2027

Title: Personalized Neuromodulation to Treat Motor and Cognitive Symptoms in Aging Population

Role: MPI

Sponsor Agency: Rutgers University School of Health Professions – Dean’s Intramural Grant

Brief Overview of Aims: The study aims to improve cognition and mobility in the aging population and individuals with cognitive and mobility deficits due to neurological disorders through cognitive-motor training and personalized brain activation stimulation. Personalized brain stimulation techniques will be used in combination with cognitive-motor training in a virtual reality environment. The study will recruit ten participants to test the effects of training on movement, cognition, and brain connectivity.

Total Dollar Amount: $35,000

Funding Period: 9/1/2023- 9/1/2025

Title: Enhancing Rehabilitation Outcomes in Cerebral Palsy through Gamified Multidisciplinary Interventions: Integrating Speech and Upper Extremity Motor Therapy

Role: Co-Investigator

Sponsor Agency: Rutgers University School of Health Professions – Dean’s Intramural Grant

Brief Overview of Aims: This project aims to create a gamified multidisciplinary treatment for children with Cerebral Palsy. It will integrate speech and upper extremity (UE) motor therapy into a cloud-based home system for telerehabilitation, making therapy more accessible. The plan is to develop computer-based therapy games to enhance speech intelligibility and UE function, assess the feasibility and effects of the treatment, and examine the neural correlates of speech production and UE movement. The overall goal is to improve the independence and quality of life of children with CP by refining their treatment to better suit their unique needs.

Total Dollar Amount: $35,000

Funding Period: 9/1/2024- 9/1/2025

Title: Cortical control of walking; brain plasticity following exoskeleton training in Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury

Role: Principal Investigator

Sponsor Agency: New Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Injury Research

Brief Overview of Aims: This study investigates the cortical modulation of muscle activation and within-brain activation during walking, and the re-organization of cortical control of walking after SCI and intensive exoskeleton-assisted training.

Total Dollar Amount: $200,000

Funding Period: June 1, 2018 – May 31, 2024 (no cost extension)

Title: Combining Physical and Mental Practice for the Rehabilitation of Upper Extremity Movement Impairments Secondary to Traumatic Brain Injury

Role: Principal Investigator

Sponsor Agency: New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research

Brief Overview of Aims: This study investigates the effect of motor imagery and performance based feedback on improving rehabilitation outcomes.

Total Dollar Amount: $179,240

Funding Period: July 1, 2017 – May 31, 2021 (completed)

Selected Publications

1. Gohel S, Laino ME, Rajeev-Kumar G, Jenabi M, Peck K, Hatzoglou V, Tabar V, Holodny AI, Vachha B. Resting-State Functional Connectivity of the Middle Frontal Gyrus Can Predict Language Lateralization in Patients with Brain Tumors. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2019 Feb;40(2):319-325. doi: 10.3174/ajnr.A5932. Epub 2019 Jan 10. PubMed PMID: 30630835; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6375738.
2. Brihmat N, Allexandre D, Bayram MB, Saleh S, Guan X, Yue Guang H, Zhong J, Forrest GF. Safety and effects of a therapeutic 15 Hz rTMS protocol administered at different suprathreshold intensities in able-bodied individuals. J Neurophysiol. 2023 Jan 1;129(1):56-65. doi: 10.1152/jn.00268.2022. Epub 2022 Dec 7. PMID: 36475885.
3. Saleh S, Glassen M, Momeni K, Ravi M, Bheemreddy A, Hoxha S, Garbarini E, Yue GH, Forrest, GF. Corticomuscular Connectivity during Walking in Able Bodied and Individuals with Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2022 Jul;2022:2332-2335. doi:
   10.1109/EMBC48229.2022.9871197. PMID: 360861
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4. Patel J, Pattison I, Glassen M, Saleh S, Qui Q, Fluet G, Kaplan E, Tunik E, Nolan KJ., Merians A,  Adamovich S. EEG Based Resting State Connectivity Changes in the Motor Cortex Associated with Upper Limb Motor Recovery in the Subacute Period Post-Stroke. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc, 2022.
5. Shenoy Handiru V, Suviseshamuthu ES, Saleh S, Su H, Yue GH, Allexandre D. Identifying neural correlates of balance impairment in traumatic brain injury using partial least squares correlation analysis. J Neural Eng. 2024 Aug 23. doi: 10.1088/1741-2552/ad7320. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39178907.
6. Saleh S, Sandroff BM, Vitiello T, Owoeye O, Hoxha A, Hake P, Goverover Y, Wylie G, Yue GH, DeLuca J. The Role of Premotor Areas in Dual Tasking in Healthy Controls and Persons With Multiple Sclerosis: An fNIRS Imaging Study. Front Behav Neurosci. 2018;12:296. PubMed PMID: 30618658; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6297844.

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For more information on the research at the NeuREI lab, please contact Professor Saleh at salehsh@shp.rutgers.edu.