Evan North

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  Modeling CPGs in Knee Injury Patients
  Evan North

  Central Pattern Generators (CPGs) are neural networks that are thought to control repetitive actions (chewing, breathing, walking, etc). While the existence of spinal CPGs in humans is still only a theory, it is a theory well supported by data. In studies of patients with knee injuries, a number of interesting patterns emerge in the periodicity of their leg movements. The main goal of this research is to create a simplified model that relies on mutually inhibitory neurons and sensory feedback from the system to show how a CPG could give rise to the patterns recorded in studies.