Research Interests:

• MY research interests are aimed at understanding how non-motor symptoms impacts physical and cognitive function, learning, and overall health in adults both with and without neurologic injury or disease (multiple sclerosis). The current research focuses on examining the use of interventions to improve motor learning in people with multiple sclerosis and understanding the factors that might influence motor learning. The specific objective is to develop approaches to maximizing opportunities for these patients to live independently. The current research also focuses on examining and characterizing main motor and non-motor impairments that need to be targeted when planning therapeutic interventions for individuals with multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease. Our studies highlighted main issues in terms of balance, mobility, sleep, and cognitive impairments that need to be considered when designing exercise interventions for these individuals. Alongside this work, we identified a battery of outcome measures that needs to be translated into Arabic that have the utility to be used in exercise intervention studies in Jordan and other Arabic Speaking countries