Research Focus

 

Focus

The focus of the lab is on clinical neural engineering based on signal processing of neuroimaging and physiological data for specific clinical problems.

 

Objectives

  1. Harvest information from signals acquired from excitable tissue

  2. Development of quantitative methods to understand neurological function.

  3. Development of new analytical, neurophysiological and neuroimaging methods which allow outcomes of interventions to be more accurately predicted.

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Collaborations

Our research is in collaboration with clinical colleagues in neurology,  neurophysiology, psychiatry, otolaryngology,  gerontology and respiratory medicine.

The Reilly Lab is a constituent laboratory of the Trinity Centre of BioMedical Engineering and the Trinity Institute of Neuroscience at Trinity College, The University of Dublin.

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most recent JOURNAL publications


The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, March 2023
Use of digital measurement of medication adherence and lung function to guide the management of uncontrolled asthma (INCA Sun): a multicentre, single-blinded, randomised clinical trial
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Journal of Neuroscience Methods. February 2023
The impact of temporal synchronisation imprecision on TRF analyses
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Biomedicines. January 2023
Contralateral selectivity of upper limb motor pools via targeted stimulation of the cervical spinal cord
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Diagnostic. September 2022
Diagnostic accuracy of a portable ECG device in rowing athletes
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Multiple Sclerosis Journal: Experimental, Translational and Clinical August 2022
New publication on Association between Speech Rate Measures and Cognitive Function in People with Relapsing and Progressive Multiple Sclerosis
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Movement Disorders August 2022
New publication on Brain-computer interfaces for treatment of focal dystonia
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Sensors July 2022
New publication on Gait Characteristics and Cognitive Function in Middle-Aged Adults With and Without Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Using Deep-Learning to Evaluate the Relationship
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Experimental Gerontology July 2022
New publication on Age and sex related differences in orthostatic cerebral oxygenation: Findings from 2,764 older adults in the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing
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Current Alzheimer's Research June 2022
New publication on Structural Correlates of Overt Sentence Reading in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Mild-to-Moderate Alzheimer’s Disease
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Journal of Neuropsychology July 2022
New publication on Word-finding, prosody, and social cognition in multiple sclerosis
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Cochlear Implants International March 2022
New publication on New Approach in Programming Sequentially Implanted Children: Towards balanced Dynamic Ranges.
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MOST RECENT NEWS


14 July 2023 Manvi Lakhotiya and Res LLoyd successfully defend their MSc thesess and awarded MSc thesis in Neuroscience with Distincion.


19 May 2023 Sarah Lavelle, Helen Elliot, Ross King, Daragh Kelly successfully defend their MAI theses


4 April 2023 MSc Graduation of Rajat Thakore, Ella Donders, Theresa Rodgers


14 July 2022 Lab presentations at IEEE EMBC 2022 from Conor Gill, Dr Clodagh O'Keeffe, Mark Etzelmuller and Dr Neil Fleming


17 June 2022 PhD Graduation of Dr Shruti Narasimham


26 April 2022 Ali McDonnell, Kiera Cullen and Ali Flaherty successfully defend their MAI theses


8 April 2022 PhD Graduation of Dr Clodagh O'Keeffe


6 April 2022 MSc Graduation of Conor Gill, Callum Franklin, Colmn Coffey, Rosalie Herings and Pieter Herings

16 December 2020 Clodagh O'Keeffe successfully defends her PhD thesis Development of an Objective Assessment of the Cognitive, Posturographic, and Electrophysiological Phenotype of the Fragile X Premutation, and analysis of their contribution to Postural Instability


20 October 2020 Mark Etzelmeuller awarded an MSc thesis in Biomedical Engineering with Distincion for this thesis "A Study of Postural Instability in a Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Cohort through the analysis of classical sway parameters and multiscale entropy derived complexity index"


20 July 2020 Grainne Kennedy, Nichola Breen and Dr Radu Stefan Bostan Narasimham each awarded an MSc thesis in Neuroscience with Distincion.


20 June 2020 Alan Gaul awarded an MAI with Distincion.


21 February 2020 Shruti Narasimham successfully defends her PhD thesis Investigating the Neural Correlates of Cervical Dystonia and Temporal Discrimination using Neuroimaging based Computational Modelling and Multimodal Pattern Recognition


30 September 2019 Marta Perez Denia submits her thesis Objective and Quantitative Acoustic-Analysis of Musician’s Dystonia


23 July 2019 Sarah Purcell and Jack Monahan each awarded an MSc thesis in Neuroscience with Distincion.


08 April 2019 Ciara O'Higgins successfully defends her PhD thesis Investigation into the Pathophysiology and the Objective Neurophysiological Measurement of Cancer-Related Fatigue in a Pre-Treatment Cancer Cohort


14 March 2019 Saskia Waechter successfully defends her PhD thesis Investigation of Objective Neurophysiological Measures of Auditory Temporal Processing Abilities and Their Applicability in Cochlear Implant Rehabilitation


12 October 2017 Laura Taboada, Dorina Birsanu and Surbhi Hablani all awarded an MSc thesis in Bioengineering with Distincion. Three great theses from three great scientists.


10 October 2017 Brendan Quinlivan successfully defends his PhD thesis Probing the neural mechanisms of adult-onset isolated focal dystonia


25 August 2017 Laura Taboada, Dorina Birsanu and Surbhi Hablani all successfully submit their MSc thesis in Bioengineering.


27 June 2017 Anna Rice, Johnny McNulty and Vikram Sundararajan all awarded the degree of MAI in Biomedical Engineering. Three great thesis projects. Anna awarded an MAI with Distinction.


19 May 2017 Dr. Conor Fearon awarded The Harold Millar Prize for best overall presentation at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Irish Neurological Association for his presentation Electroencephalography Shows Subclinical Motor Preparation Deficits for Simple Motor Tasks in Parkinson’s Disease Patients with Freezing of Gait During Locomotion


17 February 2017 Alejandro Lopez Valdes successfully defends his PhD thesis Investigating the Applicability of Single-channel Electroencephalography in Cochlear Implant Patients


11 November 2016 Martin Holmes graduates with PhD for this thesis Acoustic Analysis of Inhaler Sounds for the objective assessment of inhaler adherence in Patients with chronic respiratory diseases


14 October 2016 Gavin Bennett, Owen Killian, Thomas McCartan, Fiachra Maguire, Elisabetta Melis and Stephen Sechler all awarded an MSc in Bioengineering. Elisabetta, Owen and Stephen with a specialisation in Neural Engineering.


13 October 2016 Conor Fearon successfully defends his PhD thesis "Quantitative Assessment of Perceptual, Motor and Cognitive Function in Parkinson’s Disease and Their Contribution to Freezing of Gait"


12 October 2016 Professor Tadashi Isa from the University of Kyoto visits the lab for a few days and give a lecture titled "The superior colliculus; local circuits, output systems, and blindsight"


11 October 2016 Professor Andreas Hierlemann from the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich visits the lab.


1 September 2016 Professor Yaniv Zigel arrives to spend a sabbatical year with the ReillyLab. Prof Zigel leads the Biomedical Signal Processing Research Lab at Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel.


9 September 2016 Clodagh O'Keeffe awarded an IRC PhD Schaolrship to study the use of posture measures as an endophenotype for early dysfunction and decline


8 July 2016 Clodagh O'Keeffe awarded an MSc in Neuroscience with distinction with her thesis “An investigation of postural sway in developmental disabilities: Using neuroimaging to understand the underlying neurobiology of movement disorders in neurodevelopmental disorders”


4 July 2016 Visiting researchers Helena Lacalle Muls and Teresa Buxo Hernando from the Universitat de Barcelona achieve top grades for their theses "Objective measurement of inhaler inhalation flow profile using acoustic methods" and "Investigation of head and eye movements in cervical dystonia"


15 June 2016 IBM Faculty Award to the Lab to develop predicitve models of speech preception in Cochlear Implant users.

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14 June 2016 Ella Baird, Cathy Lau and Andrew Creagh all awarded the degree of MAI in Biomedical Engineering. Three great thesis projects. Andrew awarded an MAI with Distinction.


11 June 2016 Lab inputs to the Dystonia Conference Meet the Experts held in Dublin, June 2016. Provided an excellent opportunity to explain our research and demonstrate our experiments to members of Dystonia Ireland.


07 June 2016 Dorina Birsanu awarded a BSc in Human Health and Disease with honours and joins the Lab as a Research Assistant.


February 2016 Martin Holmes successfully defends his PhD thesis Acoustic Analysis of Inhaler Sounds for the objective assessment of inhaler adherence in Patients with chronic respiratory diseases.


 

Clinical collaboration in Dublin

-       Dublin Neurological Institute, Mater Misericordiae Hospital

-       St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dept of Neurology

-       St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dept of Neurophysiology

-       Tallaght Hospital, Department of Neurology, Dept of Neurophysiology

-       St James’s Hospital, Medicine for the Elderly

-       Beaumont Hospital, Cochlear Implant Unit, Dept of Neurophysiology

-       Beaumont Hospital, Dept of Respiratory Medicine

-       Our Lady's Hospice & Care Services