
Jason DeFreitas
@dr_defreitas
Husband, father, scientist | Prof. & Chair @SyracuseU | Research: neural & muscular plasticity 🧠💪🏽, especially aging & exercise. All views my own.
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11-08-2009 23:32:34
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I’m thrilled that I get to work on a dream project. Our lab at Syracuse University will be identifying the roles of various sensorimotor pathways and how each pathway degradates with age. I am deeply appreciative of this support from AFAR and Hevolution Foundation to complete this 3yr project


Scientists studying hearing & balance across University of Rochester & URochester SMD have created a Collective to elevate our understanding of a system does not age gracefully—for adults 75+, imbalance is the number one cause of doctor visits, & 40% experience hearing loss. #URochesterResearch

Rest in peace to the term, extrapyramidal system. Abhishek Lenka and Joseph Jankovic put the final nail in the coffin in their new piece in Neurology Journal Neurology Clinical Practice. Key Points: - Johann Prus coined the term extrapyramidal in 1898. - He experimented on dogs and




📢The Tse Lab is recruiting a postdoc! Are you interested in #memory & #spatialnavigation and have skills in #EEG? Come and join our team. Please send an introduction and CV to [email protected]. jobs.edgehill.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r… Academy of Medical Sciences Wellcome Diabetes UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology


Excited to share our latest attempt to understand methodological considerations of TMS. We explored if active motor thresholds should be reported with relative vs. absolute thresholds. Please share w/ those conducting #tmsresearch -Great job Jonathan Beausejour sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Effects of training status on atrophy-hypertrophy outcomes with leg immobilization & recovery resistance training. Awesome pre-print led by Max Michel and help from Joshua Godwin Daniel Plotkin and others with collab from Matt Stock, PhD & Marcas Bamman, PhD biorxiv.org/content/10.110…



.Russ Poldrack and I are hiring a full-time research coordinator to work with us on cognitive control, response inhibition, dual-tasking, dense fMRI, and modeling. Position is designed for a post-bac looking to start a Ph. D in 2-3 years. Please retweet. phxc1b.rfer.us/STANFORDXDXRbo

Check out the 6 seminars we’ve lined up for the UCF Institute of Ex Phys & Rehab Science Fall Seminar Series, featuring top experts on human movement. Neal Glaviano kicks us off this Friday, Aug. 30 at 11am EST. Zoom link and more info here: events.ucf.edu/calendar/6531/…



Our preprint is out. We found that 4 weeks of strength training in older adults increased their peripheral nerve speed (conduction velocity of the median nerve). Great work by our research team and guidance by Jason DeFreitas. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our (Michael Harris-Love Jason DeFreitas Dr André Nelson) special issue has accepted its first article & several more are under review. Plenty of time before the June 29th submission deadline frontiersin.org/research-topic… #myotwitter #muscle #physiology Frontiers Frontiers - Sports and Active Living Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences


Now published in our (Michael Harris-Love Jason DeFreitas Dr André Nelson ) topic "Advancing Muscle Health: From Technical and Clinical Research to Practice" The study examines manual analysis and a semi-automated algorithm inter/intra-rater muscle architecture frontiersin.org/journals/rehab…