Thomas Rhys Clarke's biography and research focus. Thomas Rhys Clarke PhD Student - Duguid Lab Hugh Robson Building 15 George Square Organisation 3 Edinburgh, EH8 9XD Contact details: thomas.clarke@ed.ac.uk Personal Profile I studied at University College London for an undergraduate degree in Neuroscience before coming to the University of Edinburgh to obtain an MSc by Research in Integrative Neuroscience. I then worked as a research assistant for a year, developing a behaviour for screening symptoms in a mouse model of autism. In October 2020 I started my PhD in the Duguid lab. Research My research focuses on how the basal ganglia and cerebellum contribute to the learning of new movements. I use calcium imaging, optogenetics and electrophysiology to study these circuits in awake behaving mice to identify how the activity in these areas changes over the course of learning. Relevant Publications A cerebellar-thalamocortical pathway drives behavioural context-dependant movement initiation. Joshua Dacre, Matt Colligan*,Thomas Clarke*, Julian Ammer*, Julia Schiemann, Victor Chamosa-Pino, Federico Claudi, J. Alex Harston,Constantinos Eleftheriou, Janelle M.P.Pakan, Chen-Chiu Huang, Adam Hantman, Nathalie L. Rochefort, Ian Duguid. 2021. Neuron. 10.1016/j.neuron.doi.org\2021.05.016 Comparing the Effectiveness of Blood Flow Restriction and Traditional Heavy Load Resistance Training in the Post-Surgery Rehabilitation of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction Patients: A UK National Health Service Randomised Controlled Trial. Luke Hughes, Fares Haddad, Connor Gissane, Daniel McCarthy, Thomas Clarke, Graham Ferris, Joanna Dawes, Bruce Paton. Sports Med 49, 1787-1805 (2019). doi.org/10.1007/s40279-019-01137-2 This article was published on 2022-10-17
