Catherine R. Lowrey
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About
Catherine R. Lowrey is a leading researcher in neurorehabilitation engineering, specializing in the use of robotic technologies to quantify motor and cognitive impairments after stroke. Her major contributions center on developing novel, objective robotic tasks—primarily using the Kinarm exoskeleton—to assess bimanual coordination, rapid motor decisions, proprioception, and spasticity, moving beyond traditional clinical scales. Her work has been highly influential, with her most-cited paper, "A Novel Robotic Task for Assessing Impairments in Bimanual Coordination Post-Stroke" (2014), garnering 88 citations, and her subsequent studies on motor decisions and spasticity assessment accumulating 64 and 61 citations, respectively. Notably, she developed the KAPS (Kinematic Assessment of Passive Stretch) tool for quantifying elbow spasticity and has extended her robotic assessment platform to differentiate Parkinson’s disease from healthy controls, demonstrating its versatility. Lowrey’s research provides clinicians and researchers with sensitive, reproducible metrics for understanding stroke recovery and guiding rehabilitation, establishing her as a key figure in the integration of robotics into neurological assessment.
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