#StudentSpotlight: Anna Korol is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the WVU Department of Neuroscience. Anna Korol studies computational neuroscience and is currently researching how individuals can recover motor movements post-stroke — an interest that stemmed from her own grandmother suffering from a stroke. She is also highly engaged in outreach, including the WV State Fair, Spark! Imagination Center's Day of Science, Day at the WV Legislature, and the multiple summer high school camps. "When a stroke happens, it injures the part of the brain responsible for movement, so those neurons cannot control the movements the same way. We're designing a system in our lab using functional electrical stimulation that could, in real time, record muscle activity and support this movement. We want to recreate this healthy pattern of reaching and decrease the maladaptive plasticity that occurs after a stroke, where there is not enough descending drive to the spinal cord." #WVUNeuro #WVUNeurology ...