Who We Are
The Physiology of Walking & Engineering Rehabilitation Laboratory (PoWER Lab) is a human neuroscience laboratory at Boys Town National Research Hospital’s Institute for Human Neuroscience in Omaha, Nebraska. Under the direction of Dr. Max Kurz, the lab primarily focuses on how humans process and attend to sensory information, produce motor actions, and learn new motor skills.
Our goal is directed at the development of innovative, rehabilitative solutions for individuals with developmental disabilities.
What We Do
The laboratory uses a blend of neuroimaging and advanced biomechanical engineering analyses. The outcomes from our research are directed at the development of new rehabilitative technologies and therapeutic approaches for improving the cognition, mobility and motor actions of patients with developmental disabilities. The laboratory also has a major research arm that is dedicated towards understanding the neurophysiological changes in aging adults with Down Syndrome. This research employs MEG brain imaging to identify new biomarkers that can be used to recognize the pre-clinical signs of dementia and assess new treatment approaches that are on the horizon for Alzheimer’s disease.
