Assistant Professor

 










Education

• Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia - Ph.D. 
  Physics and Mathematics
• Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia - B.Sc. & M.Sc.
  Physics and Engineering

Funded Research

"Use of a Novel Robotic Interface for Arm Rehabilitation in Hemiparetic | Cerebral Palsy" - Principal Investigator: Sergei Adamovich

"Virtual Reality-Based System for Rehabilitation, Education and Recreation in Hemiparetic Cerebral Palsy"

“Virtual Reality Rehabilitation of Hand Use after Stroke"

"Motor Control Deficits in Parkinson’s Disease"

"Collaborative Telemedicine Environments: New Jersey Center for Multimodal Collaborative Systems"

 Professional Experience

•  2003-present  - Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology
• 2003-present - Adjunct Associate Professor, Developmental and Rehabilitative Sciences,     University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
• 1998-2003 - Faculty Research Associate, Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University
• 1993; 1995-1998  - Senior Postdoctoral Associate, Postdoctoral Associate. Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University
• 1992-1994 - Visiting Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering and Rehabilitation Institute, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
• 1987-2001 - Research Scientist, Junior Research Fellow, Institute for Problems of Information Transmission, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

 Publications

 1. Merians A.S., Poizner H., Boian R., Burdea G. and Adamovich S.V.
    Sensorimotor training in a virtual reality environment: Does it improve functional recovery post-stroke? Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 2006, in press.

2. Schettino L.F., Adamovich S.V., Hening W., Tunik E., Sage J., and Poizner H.  Hand Preshaping in Parkinson’s Disease: Effects of Visual Feedback and
    Medication State. Experimental Brain Research, 2006, 168, 186-202.

3. Adamovich S.V., Merians A., Boian R., Tremaine M., Burdea G., Recce M. and Poizner H. Virtual Reality Based System for Hand Rehabilitation Post-Stroke,
    Presence, 2005, 14, 161-174.

4. Adamovich S.V., Merians A.S., Boian R., Tremaine M., Burdea G.S., Recce M. and Poizner H. A Virtual Reality Based Exercise System for Hand
    Rehabilitation Post-Stroke: Transfer to Function. In: EMBS 2004: Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in
    Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA; 2004.

5. Adamovich S.V., Merians A.S., Boian R, Burdea G.S., Poizner H. An Innovative Approach to the Rehabilitation of Hand Function Post-Stroke. In:
    Proceedings of the 17th Annual International Conference on Technological Innovations in Disability, Garches Institute, B. Bussel, editor, Paris, France, 2004,
    pp. 252-262. 

6. Tunik, E., Poizner, H., Adamovich, S., Levin, M., and Feldman, A. “Deficits in Adaptive Upper Limb Control in Response to Trunk Perturbations in
    Parkinson’s Disease,” Experimental Brain Research, 2004, 159(1):23-32.

7. Deutsch, J., A. Merians, S. Adamovich, H. Poizner, and G. Burdea. Development and Application of Virtual Reality Technology to Improve Hand Use and
    Gait of Individuals Post-Stroke, Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, Special issue on motor system plasticity, recovery and rehabilitation, 2004, 22,
    341-386.

8. Tunik, E., Adamovich, S., Poizner, H., and Feldman, A. “Deficits in Rapid Adjustments of Movements According to Task Constraints in Parkinson`s Disease,”
    Movement Disorders, 2004, 19: 897-906.

9. Schettino, L., Rajaraman, V., Jack, D., Adamovich, S., Sage, J. and Poizner, H. “Deficits in the Evolution of Hand Preshaping in Parkinson’s Disease,”
    Neuropsychologia, 2004, 42, 82-94.

10. Schettino L.F., Adamovich S.V. and Poizner H. Effects of object shape and visual feedback on hand configuration during grasping. Experimental Brain
      Research, 2003, 151(2):158-66.

11. Adamovich S.V., Merians A., Boian R., Tremaine M., Burdea G., Recce M. and Poizner H. Virtual Reality Based System for Hand Rehabilitation
      Post-Stroke. Proc. Second Int. Workshop on Virtual Rehabilitation, pp. 74-81, September 2003.

12. Tunik, E., Poizner, H., Levin, M., Adamovich, S., Messier, J., Lamarre, Y., and Feldman, A. Role of Proprioception in Arm-Trunk Coordination During
      Reaching, Experimental Brain Research, 2003, 153, 343-355.

13. Messier J., Adamovich S.V., Berkinblit M.B., Tunik E. and Poizner H. Influence of movement speed on accuracy and coordination of reaching movements to
      memorized targets in 3-D space in a deafferented subject. Experimental Brain Research, 2003, 150, 399-416.

14. Krebs H.I., Volpe B, Aisen M., Hening W., Adamovich S.V., Poizner H., Subrahmanyan K., Hogan, N. Robotic Applications in Neuromotor Rehabilitation,
      Robotica, 2003, 21: 3-11.

15. Boian R., Sharma A., Han C., Merians A., Burdea G., Adamovich S.V., Recce M., Tremaine M. and Poizner H. Virtual Reality Based Post-Stroke Hand
      Rehabilitation. Proceedings of Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference 2002, Newport Beach CA, January 23-26 2002, IOS Press, pp. 64-70.

16. Ghafouri M., Archambault P.S., Adamovich S.V. and Feldman A.G. Pointing movements may be produced in different frames of reference depending on the
      task demand, Brain Research, 2002, 929: 117-128.

17. Merians A., Jack D., Boian R., Tremaine M., Burdea G.C., Adamovich S.V., Recce M., and Poizner H. Virtual Reality-Augmented Rehabilitation For
      Patients Post Stroke: Three Case Studies, Physical Therapy, 2002, 82:898-915.

18. Deutsch J.E., Merians A.S., Burdea G.C., Boian R., Adamovich S.V. and Poizner H. Haptics and virtual reality used to increase strength and improve function
      in chronic individuals post-stroke: two case reports. Neurology Report, 2002, 26: 79-86.

19. Adamovich S.V., Archambault P., Ghafouri M., Levin M.F., Poizner H. and Feldman A.G. Hand trajectory invariance in reaching movements involving the
      trunk, Experimental Brain Research, 2001, 138: 288-303.

20. Jack D., Boian R., Merians A., Tremaine M., Burdea G.C., Adamovich S.V., Recce M., and Poizner H. Virtual Reality-Based Stroke Rehabilitation, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 2001, 9: 308-318.

21. Adamovich, S.V., Berkinblit, M.B., Hening, W., Sage J. and Poizner, H. The interaction of visual and proprioceptive inputs in pointing to actual and remembered targets in Parkinson’s disease, Neuroscience, 2001, 104: 1027-1041.

22. Berkinblit M.B. and Adamovich S.V. Parallel control of multiple joints in reaching movements. Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Computation and Control Problems (PACO2001), Moscow, Russia, October 2-4 2001 (in Russian).

23. Krebs H.I., Hogan N., Hening W., Adamovich S.V., Poizner H. Procedural Motor Learning in Parkinson’s Disease, Experimental Brain Research, 2001, 141: 425-437.

24. Poizner H., Feldman A., Levin M., Berkinblit M., Hening W., Patel A., and Adamovich S.V. Arm-trunk coordination is deficient and vision-dependent in Parkinson’s patients during reaching movements, Experimental Brain Research, 2000, 133: 279-292.

25. Rajaraman V., Jack D., Adamovich S.V., Hening W., Sage J. and Poizner H. Three dimensional quantitative assessment of Parkinsonian tremor – clinical application in evaluating the efficacy of Pramipexole, Clinical Neurophysiology, 2000, 111: 338-343.

26. Jack D., Boian R., Merians A., Adamovich S.V., Tremaine M., Recce M., Burdea G.C., and Poizner H. A virtual reality-based exercise program for stroke rehabilitation. Proceedings of ASSETS 2000: Fourth ACM SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive Technologies, Arlington VA, 2000, pp 56-63.

27. Adamovich S.V., Berkinblit M.B., Fookson O., and Poizner H. Pointing in 3D space to remembered targets: II Effects of movement speed toward kinesthetically defined targets. Experimental Brain Research, 1999, 125: 200-210.

28. Adamovich S.V., Berkinblit M.B., Fookson O., and Poizner H. Pointing in 3D space to remembered targets: I. Kinesthetic versus visual target presentation. Journal of Neurophysiology, 1998, 79: 2833-2846.

29. Poizner H., Fookson O., Berkinblit M.B., Hening W., Feldman G. and Adamovich S.V. Pointing to remembered targets in 3D space in Parkinson’s disease. Motor Control, 1998, 2: 251-277.

30. Adamovich S.V., Levin M.F. and Feldman A.G. Central modifications of reflex parameters may underlie the fastest arm movements. Journal of Neurophysiology, 1997, 77: 1460-1469.

31. St-Onge N., Adamovich S.V. and Feldman A.G. Control processes underlying elbow flexion movements may be independent of kinematic and electromyographic patterns: experimental study and modeling. Neuroscience, 1997, 79: 295-316.

32. Feldman A., Adamovich S. and Levin M. A frame of reference hypothesis for movement control: verification for fast single-joint movements in humans. Experimental Brain Research, 1995, 103: 440-450.

33. Berkinblit M.B., Fookson O.I., Smetanin B., Adamovich S.V. and Poizner H. The interaction of visual and proprioceptive inputs in pointing to actual and remembered targets. Experimental Brain Research, 1995, 107: 326-330.

34. Adamovich S., Levin M. and Feldman A. Merging different motor patterns: Coordination between the rhythmical and discrete single-joint movements. Experimental Brain Research, 1994, 99: 325-337.

35. Fookson O., Smetanin B., Berkinblit M., Adamovich S., Feldman G., and Poizner H. Azimuth errors in pointing to remembered targets under extreme head rotations NeuroReport, 1994, 5, 885-888.

36. Adamovich S., Berkinblit M., Smetanin B., Fookson O., Poizner H. Influence of movement speed on accuracy of pointing to memorized targets in 3-D space. Neuroscience Letters, 1994, 172: 171-174.

37. Smetanin B, Adamovich S., Berkinblit M, Fookson O. and Poizner H. Head rotations and pointing errors in humans, Neurophysiology, 1994, 26: 98-105.

38. Adamovich S. How does the nervous system control the equilibrium? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1992, 15, 704-705.

39. Feldman A. G., Adamovich S. V., Ostry D. J., Flanagan J. R.  The origin of electromyograms - explanations based on the equilibrium point hypothesis. In: Winters J., Woo S.  (Eds.)   Multiple Muscle Systems:  Biomechanics of Movement Organization, 1990, Springer-Verlag, 195-213.

40. Adamovich S. V., Berkinblit M. B., and Feldman A. G.  Principles of Motor Control in Humans (Part 1), Moscow, VINITI, 1990, 1-164.

41. Adamovich S. V., Berkinblit M. B., Temchin M. A. and Feldman A. G. Principles of Motor Control in Humans (Part 2), Moscow, VINITI, 1990, 1-98.

42. Adamovich S. V.  and  Feldman A. G.   The prerequisites for the theory of one-joint motor control in man. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1989, 12, 210-211.

43. Adamovich S. V. and Feldman A. G.   Model of central regulation of the parameters of motor trajectories, Biophysics, 1984, 29, 338-342.

44. Adamovich S. V., Burlachkova N. I. and Feldman A. G. Wave nature of the central process of formation of the trajectories of change in the joint angle in man. Biophysics, 1984, 29, 130-134.