# 2020 Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement

> **NIH NIH R13** · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · 2020 · $33,000

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
Without movement, we would be utterly unable to interact with the world. All behaviors, including speech,
writing, reaching, grasping, gaze, walking and posture require the coordinated activities of many motor areas.
Further, sensory signals provide essential feedback to these motor areas, enabling accurate motor control and
motor learning, as well as providing information vital for deciding future behaviors. As a result, understanding
the sensorimotor control of even the most basic movements like orienting toward a sudden sound, or reaching
to pick up a glass of water is complex.
 Damage to these sensorimotor pathways can produce a wide range of debilitating neurological
disorders including tremor, Parkinson's disease, ataxia, dystonia, and spasticity - all of which markedly
decrease quality of life. The Society for the Neural Control of Movement (NCM) is an international community
of scientists, clinician-investigators and trainees engaged in research whose common goal is to understand
how the brain controls movement and to address the deficits that occur in disease. NCM promotes a broad
range of research using interdisciplinary approaches (e.g., neurophysiological, anatomical, molecular,
computational, and behavioral), different animal models, and studies of intact subjects and those with
neurological disorders.
 The inaugural NCM Meeting took place in 1991. The success of the society and its annual meeting has
led to a continual growth in membership, meeting attendance, and the breadth of scientific content. With
support through the NIH, the 2020 NCM meeting will make substantive progress towards furthering three main
goals of the society: Aim 1) Stimulate new research approaches and collaborations among NCM meeting
attendees by identifying new topics and appropriate scientists as speakers, Aim 2) continue to increase the
gender and ethnic diversity within the NCM leadership and in meeting programing, and Aim 3) promote and
support the development of the next generation of motor control researchers by providing financial and career
support for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. Overall, the unique format of the annual NCM
meeting, with its focus on interdisciplinary approaches, discussion, and scientific interaction in an intimate
meeting environment, is of immeasurable value to furthering worldwide understanding of how the brain controls
movement in both health and disease.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9993828
- **Project number:** 1R13NS117017-01
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
- **Principal Investigator:** RACHAEL D SEIDLER
- **Activity code:** R13 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $33,000
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2020-04-15 → 2022-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9993828

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9993828, 2020 Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement (1R13NS117017-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9993828. Licensed CC0.

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