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Jeff Haddad is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health and Kinesiology at Purdue University. His research focuses on motor control, balance, and dynamical systems, exploring the changes in postural stability, manual control, and locomotion that occur as a result of aging, development, and disease. He is particularly interested in how individuals across the life span adapt their motor behaviors in varying contexts, employing a variety of analytical techniques inspired by non-linear dynamics and chaos theory. His findings suggest that motor variability is a functional component of typical movement production, where nonrandom structured variations in generated movements aid the development of motor skills, enhance balance control, and improve the motor system's ability to adapt and coordinate movements based on the task environment. Currently, he is investigating the decline in the integration of posture and supra-postural behaviors in aged populations and is examining ways to improve balance and reduce fall risk in older individuals and those with Parkinson's disease during typical daily activities.
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