Erinn Grigsby is a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Grigsby received her doctorate in Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh in 2021 under the supervision of Dr. Aaron Batista and Dr. Byron Yu. Her doctoral research focused on using brain-computer interface to study how the time course of population neural activity evolves so that we can smoothly and effectively interact with the world. She also holds a Master's from Duke University where her research thesis was supervised by Dr. Marc Sommer. In her master's thesis research, she characterized the neural response in the motor cortex at the single-cell level to the non-invasive stimulation technique transcranial magnetic stimulation. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering from Duke University.
Research Interest Summary
Stroke, Motor Control, Neuroprosthetics, Rehabilitation, Spinal Cord Injury, Electrical Stimulation, Speech
Research Interests
Dr. Grigsby's research interests involve understanding how the brain coordinates movements and learns new skills via the interaction of multiple cortical and spinal areas. She is especially interested in participating in collaborative research that would bridge the fields of basic science and clinical research to establish novel neural rehabilitation methods. She is currently investigating the effects of motor thalamic stimulation to potentiate motor and speech outputs following neurological damage such as stroke.