Frailty as a brain phenotype
Frailty is scored at the body but decided in the cortex. We phenotype older adults across physical, cognitive, psychological and social axes, then ask which prefrontal signatures separate the subtypes.
What we work on
Four questions, one instrument set.
Ageing, pain and athletic performance are usually studied by different people in different buildings. They share a substrate: how the cortex allocates resources to a body under load. We study that substrate directly.
Pain that outlives its injury
Central sensitisation, pain neuroscience education, and non-invasive brain stimulation in chronic musculoskeletal pain — where the tissue has healed and the map has not.
Movement under load
Orthopaedic manual therapy and sports medicine: how the neuromuscular system reorganises after injury, and what separates a compensation from a recovery.
Prediction that reaches the clinic
Models built on cohort, wearable and neuroimaging data — validated in living labs, not only in held-out test sets.
Publications
The record.
Peer-reviewed output across neurorehabilitation, pain science and geriatric exercise medicine.
56
Peer-reviewed papers
SCI(E) / ESCI / KCI indexed
SCI(E) / ESCI / KCI indexed
495
Citations
h-index 12 · i10-index 16
h-index 12 · i10-index 16
Review & editorial
41 manuscripts reviewed across 19 journals
Section Board Member · Medicina (MDPI)
Section Board Member · Medicina (MDPI)
Bibliometrics retrieved 2026.07 · Google Scholar · ORCID
Join us
Work with the lab.
We collaborate with clinicians, engineers and international groups working on ageing, pain and human performance. Students interested in fNIRS or geriatric rehabilitation are welcome to write.