Olivia Samotus
London Health Sciences Centre, Lawson Health Research Institute
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About
Olivia Samotus is a leading researcher in neurorehabilitation engineering, whose work focuses on developing assistive technologies for movement disorders such as Parkinson’s Disease (PD), Essential Tremor (ET), and focal hand dystonia (FHD). Her major contributions lie at the intersection of haptic feedback systems and signal processing, where she has pioneered methods to characterize and mitigate pathological tremors. Her most-cited paper (41 citations) introduces an adaptive filtering technique—the Enhanced-BMFLC—that estimates tremor dynamics to inform the design of augmented haptic rehabilitation systems. Samotus has also investigated force control deficits in PD patients, linking them to freezing of gait (FOG), a debilitating symptom affecting roughly 50% of advanced cases. In a notable 2016 study, she explored how manipulating kinesthetic input during botulinum toxin therapy could improve outcomes for writer’s cramp, a form of FHD. Her work is highly interdisciplinary, bridging engineering and clinical neuroscience, and holds promise for developing personalized, non-invasive interventions that restore motor function and improve quality of life for individuals with neurological disorders.
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