Jennapher Lingo Vangilder
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Jennapher Lingo VanGilder received her bachelor's in biomedical engineering from the University of Tennessee in 2008 and her master's at Arizona State University in 2013. She worked with children with cerebal palsy in her role as a motion analysis engineer at the Phoenix Children's Hospital from 2013-2017, which inspired her transition back to graduate school to pursue neurorehabilitation research. As a Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Fellow, Mrs. Lingo VanGilder's research centered on identifying neuroimaging and neuropsychological clinical predictors of motor learning to advance our understanding of motor rehabilitation treatment response in older adults. She is now a postdoctoral research scholar in Dr. Scott Beeman's Quantitative in vivo Magnetic Resonance Laboratory where she is investigating the roel of diffusion magnetic resonance imaging in the detection of preclinical Alzheimer's disease.
2008 B.S., Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
2013 M.S., School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. Mentor: Dr. Stephen Helms Tillery
2021 Ph.D., School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. Mentor: Sydney Y. Schaefer, PhD
2022- Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Quantitative in vivo Magnetic Resonance Laboratory, School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. Mentor: Dr. Scott Beeman
Areas: neural basis for motor learning and visuospatial processing; behavioral neuroscience; clinical neuropsychology; neurorehabilitation
Techniques: diffusion tensor and other structural neuroimaging analyses; resting state fMRI analysis
Motor Rehabilitation and Learning Laboratory
The capacity to learn and retain motor skills is fundamental to the motor rehabilitative process. Without a clinical ‘gold standard’ to estimate motor learning capacity, patients who will receive little to no benefit from motor rehabilitation will continue to participate in ineffective therapies. The long-term goal of our research laboratory is to identify clinical predictors of motor learning capacity, or the amount of motor skill an individual can learn and retain after training. We have recently shown that a person’s visuospatial ability may predict their ability to learn a novel motor skill, regardless of age and the presence of memory-related cognitive deficits. We hypothesize that visuospatial and motor learning processes are integrated within a frontoparietal white matter tract such that testing the functionality of one will predict the functionality of the other. My dissertation work will involve diffusion tensor MRI to examine the neural basis of this predictive relationship. The impact of my work will indicate that a quick and easy to administer paper-and-pencil visuospatial test may predict an individual’s motor rehabilitation treatment response, critical information to consider while developing a patient’s treatment plan.
Published peer-reviewed papers
- Regan E, Fridrikkson J, Schaefer SY, Rorden C, Bonilha L, Lingo VanGilder J, Stewart JC. Neural correlates of within session effects during upper extremity training in individuals with mild motor impairment after stroke: A preliminary study. Experimental Brain Research. Epub ahead of print. doi:
- Lingo VanGilder J, Hooyman A, Peterson D, Schaefer SY. Post-stroke cognitive impairments and responsiveness to motor rehabilitation: A review. Current Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Reports. Epub ahead of print. doi: 10.1007/s40141-020-00283-3
- Lingo VanGilder J, Walter CS, Hengge CR, Schaefer SY. (2019) Exploring the relationship between visuospatial function and age-related declines in motor skill transfer. Aging Clinical and Experimental Research. Epub ahead of print. doi: 10.1007/s40520-019-01345-w
- Lingo VanGilder J, VanGilder P. Functional differences in visuospatial processing along the anterior-posterior axis: Are there implications for the retrosplenial cortex? (2019) The Journal of Neurophysiology. 2019; 122(5):1845-1848.
- Lingo VanGilder J, Hengge CR, Duff K, Schaefer SY. (2018) Visuospatial function predicts one-week motor skill retention in cognitively intact older adults. Neuroscience Letters. 2018; 664:139-143.
- McAndrew RM, Lingo VanGilder J, Naufel SN, Helms Tillery SI. (2012) Individualized recording chambers for non-human primate neurophysiology. The Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 2012; 207(1):86-90.
Under review
- Lingo VanGilder J, Lohse KR, Duff K, Wang P, Schaefer SY. Associations between Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure test and motor skill learning in older adults. Acta Psychologica.
In preparation
- Lingo VanGilder J, Bergamino M, Stewart JC, Rogalsky CR, Fitzhugh MC, Schaefer SY. Whole-brain analysis of white matter motor learning and visuospatial relationship.
- Lingo VanGilder J, Hooyman A, Schaefer SY. Visuospatial memory predicts one-month motor skill consolidation of older adults with and without stroke.
12/2018-12/2021 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Predoctoral Fellowship, National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health. Title: “Using diffusion tensor imaging to determine the structural neural correlates of visuospatial and motor skill learning processes”.
08/2011-05/2013 M.S. Thesis, Sensorimotor Research Group. Title: “Electrocorticographic Analysis of Spontaneous Conversation to Localize Receptive and Expressive Language Areas.”
BME 598 - Terminology and Application of Medical Models of Disability (Spring 2018)
2016- Vice President and Board Member of Research Animal Retirement Foundation
2013-2017 Motion Analysis Engineer, Ping Golf and Bubba Watson Motion Analysis Laboratory, Phoenix Children's Hospital, Phoenix, AZ
2006 Reliability Engineer Intern, Alcoa Inc., Goose Creek, SC