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Lara Boyd

@lboyd47.bsky.social
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Professor, Neuroscientist, PT, Director Brain Behaviour Lab UBC, Mom, Runner, Dog Lover, Canadian

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TMSMultiLab @tmsmultilab.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Many thanks to the 60 gorgeous #TMS researchers who took a few minutes to complete our user survey. The quantitative results have been processed and summarised, and are now available in full on our GitHub page: github.com/TMSMultiLab/... A quick breakdown follows in this thread: #PieChartHeaven
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TMS User Survey
Resources, data and code to help you run a TMS laboratory - TMSMultiLab/TMSMultiLab
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Lara Boyd @lboyd47.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Thrilled to celebrate 8 new grads from our graduate program in Rehabilitation Sciences - Congrats! @ubcrhsc.bsky.social @ubcpt.bsky.social @ubcosot.bsky.social
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Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health (DMCBH) @dmcbrainhealth.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
DMCBH member Dr. Lara Boyd (@lboyd47.bsky.social) has created a video game to help with stroke recovery. “Our hope is to gamify rehabilitation, creating an enjoyable experience for patients that will extend the exercises that they perform in structured therapy to regain limb functionality.”
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Gamified stroke recovery improves arm function - Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health | DMCBH
New software brings the fun of playing a video game to high-repetition rehabilitative exercises for individuals affected by stroke. For the
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Lara Boyd @lboyd47.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Learning a new movement with your arm relies on learning to move your eyes! Check out our new paper www.nature.com/articles/s41... @ubcrhsc.bsky.social @drrubino.bsky.social @jandrushko.bsky.social @ubcosot.bsky.social 🧪
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Oculomotor learning is evident during implicit motor sequence learning - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Oculomotor learning is evident during implicit motor sequence learning
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Sherry Pagoto, PhD @drsherrypagoto.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024. That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved. Show me a better investment than that. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
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NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report
National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 10/03/2025
Happy #BrainAwarenessWeek! 🧠 🎉 All week long, we'll be sharing all things brain and take you behind the scenes of our work to demystify it. 🎨 Amazing agar art by Research Associate Brooke Wynalda! #Neuroskyence #BrainWeek @danafoundation.bsky.social
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AndreaDC she/her✊🏼♥️🌿🌎🌍🌏🍉🌻Despair is a luxury we just can’t afford @andreadoremus.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Tomorrow: #MarchForScience #March7 #March7th
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Dana 🌈🔬🪱 @millerlab.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Dear HHMI - this is a much better response - take notes
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Canadian Psychological Association @canadianpsychology.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
@liisagalea.bsky.social is a scientific lead for the @camhnews.bsky.social program womenmind™, which tackles gender disparities in science and mental health research. #PsychologyMonth #WomenInScience buff.ly/3Xl28G3
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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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Mama Doc @mamadoc.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
For day 4 of Black History Month, there may be no woman who has made a bigger historical impact than Henrietta Lacks. Born in 1920, she was found to have cervical cancer at the age of 31. The cells in the biopsy were discovered to double every 20-24 hours. Up until then, it was impossible /1
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
A call to send messages of encouragement to Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, with her address listed:
The Rt Revd Mariann Edgar Budde
Episcopal Church House
Mount St. Alban
Washington, DC, 20016-5094, USA


Her photo shows her standing confidently, wearing a purple bishop's stole and a cross necklace, set against a stone pillar backdrop
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Matthew Boyd @mboydpdx.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
My dad always took my brother and I fishing. It was awesome. I was so exited I could barely sleep the night before. That's him cleaning a fish behinds us. Me returning the favor 40 years later.
Steelhead fishing in Oregon with my dad and brother 40 years ago. That's him behind us.Sharing a fly caught coho moment w/ my dad.
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Lara Boyd @lboyd47.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Do Amercians realize that this does not happen in the rest of the world? Just wondering from 🇨🇦 ...
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Terry Fox will be the next Canadian featured on the $5 bill. The athlete and activist will be replacing Sir Wilfrid Laurier who will now appear on the next version of the $50 note, by Clarrie Feinstein www.thestar.com/news/terry-f... via @torontostar.bsky.social
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Terry Fox will be the next Canadian featured on the $5 bill
The athlete and activist will be replacing Sir Wilfrid Laurier who will now appear on the next version of the $50 note.
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Lara Boyd @lboyd47.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
My favorite day as a professor! Congrats to the new grads Dr.@crubino.bsky.social and @anjanarajendran.bsky.social
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Jehannine (J9) Austin @j9austin.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Fantastic thread … yay science. Saving lives! Aside: somewhat jarring to immediately note that 13/15 are men authors …
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Michelle Ploughman @michploughman.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
First day of 🇨🇦 Stroke Congress #Calgary and all the superstars are here. @sandyb-reachlab.bsky.social @lboyd47.bsky.social fangirling here! Epic. strokecongress.canadianstroke.ca/wp-content/u...
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Liisa Galea @liisagalea.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Our latest review-with @bonniee-leee.bsky.social where we pour our ❤️🧠 & soul to outline our position on why we are so passionate about harnessing the power of sex differences & within sex diff to propel precision medicine forward let us know if we convince you www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Leveraging research into sex differences and steroid hormones to improve brain health - Nature Reviews Endocrinology
This Review outlines how the effects of steroid hormones on hippocampal neuroplasticity across the adult lifespan differ between the sexes, highlighting the importance of considering sex and steroid h...
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BrainBehaviourLab @brainbehaviourlab.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
What happens when a field includes mostly men and males in research? We have clinical guidelines that may not apply to females or women. Check it out in our new paper: academic.oup.com/ptj/advance-...
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Chronic Underrepresentation of Females and Women in Stroke Research Adversely Impacts Clinical Care
Abstract. Unequal sex and gender sample sizes in rehabilitation studies have implications for the generalizability of the evidence and for the clinicians t
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BrainBehaviourLab @brainbehaviourlab.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Check out our new paper showing how gamified tasks can be used for stroke rehabilitation! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Gamified Practice Improves Paretic Arm Motor Behavior in Individuals With Stroke - Cristina Rubino, Bimal Lakhani, Beverley C. Larssen, Sarah N. Kraeutner, Justin W. Andrushko, Michael R. Borich, Lara...
Background Stroke is a heterogeneous condition, making choice of treatment, and determination of how to structure rehabilitation outcomes difficult. Individualize...
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 14/11/2024
Democrats have the majority for less than two more months. I'll be using every second to push for passage of my PRESS Act to protect journalists from government spying and surveillance.
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Liisa Galea @liisagalea.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
What I’ve wanted to say but never had the nerve… HT Jesse Lacasse
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 10/11/2024
By popular demand, I have begun making a cognitive neuroscience starter pack. If you scan brains, you can be on it! go.bsky.app/2n84SRM
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Talia Lerner @talialerner.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
A starter pack! Some of my favorite women in neuroscience (sorry if I forgot you, I will add!) go.bsky.app/SCFmKoC
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Lara Boyd @lboyd47.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
Hi all - my name is Lara and I am a neuroscientist who uses MRI and TMS to map change in the human brain as we learn and also during recovery after stroke. Check out this gorgeous image - it is my brain mapped with diffusion imaging in the MRI. 🧪🧠
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