Brook Galna

I conduct multi- and inter-disciplinary health-related research, concentrating on how well and how much people move, and how that movement changes throughout the lifespan - including physical activity in children; movement profiles of high-performance athletes; and how movement changes as we age and with neurodegenerative conditions such as dementia or Parkinson’s.

My research shows that discrete digital signatures of movement (especially walking), measured either in a laboratory or during daily life, can provide useful clinical markers to aid earlier and more accurate diagnosis of age-related diseases, predict deleterious health outcomes such as falls, track disease progression, guide personalised medicine and measure response to treatment. As part of this work, I examine neural, cognitive and visual mechanisms of movement to better inform interventions and more appropriate clinical and performance outcomes.