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Leonardo Abdala Elias

0000-0003-4488-3063

Assistant Professor (Biomedical engineering not elsewhere classified)

Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Campinas

Leonardo Abdala Elias is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Campinas (UNICAMP, Brazil). Also, he is an Associate Researcher and current Director of the Center for Biomedical Engineering, UNICAMP. He is the founder and current Head of the Neural Engineering Research Laboratory. His research in Neural Engineering focuses on theoretical/computational and experimental investigations that aimed at understanding how different elements of the neuromusculoskeletal system interact during normal and pathological control of human movement. Dr. Elias received the BS in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Goias (Goiania, Brazil) in 2008, and the MS and PhD in Biomedical Engineering both from the University of Sao Paulo (Sao Paulo, Brazil) in 2010 and 2013, respectively. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Biomedical Engineering Lab, University of Sao Paulo (2013-2014).

Publications

  • Vieira MF, Elias LA (2009) Accommodation in motoneuron models with passive dendrite: Response to linearly rising currents. Neurocomputing 72: 3396–3398.
  • Chaud VM, Elias LA, Watanabe RN, Kohn AF (2012) A simulation study of the effects of activation-dependent muscle stiffness on proprioceptive feedback and short-latency reflex. 4th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics. Rome: IEEE. pp. 133–138.
  • Elias LA, Chaud VM, Kohn AF (2012) Models of passive and active dendrite motoneuron pools and their differences in muscle force control. J Comput Neurosci 33: 515–531.
  • Elias LA, Kohn AF (2013) Individual and collective properties of computationally efficient motoneuron models of types S and F with active dendrites. Neurocomputing 99: 521–533.
  • Mezzarane RA, Elias LA, Magalhaes FH, Chaud VM, Kohn AF (2013) Experimental and simulated EMG responses in the study of the human spinal cord. In: Turker H, editor. Electrodiagnosis in new frontiers of clinical research. Rijeka: Intech. pp. 57–87.
  • Elias LA, Kohn AF (2013) Web-based neuromuscular simulator applied to the teaching of principles of neuroscience. Rev Bras Eng Biomed 29: 213–226.
  • Watanabe RN, Elias LA, Kohn AF (2013) Low-frequency fluctuations of plantar flexion torque in force and position control tasks studied experimentally and by a neuromusculoskeletal model. 6th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (NER). IEEE. pp. 794–797.
  • Watanabe RN, Magalhães FH, Elias LA, Chaud VM, Mello EM, et al. (2013) Influences of premotoneuronal command statistics on the scaling of motor output variability during isometric plantar flexion. J Neurophysiol 110: 2592–2606.
  • Elias LA, Watanabe RN, Kohn AF (2014) Spinal mechanisms may provide a combination of intermittent and continuous control of human posture: predictions from a biologically based neuromusculoskeletal model. PLoS Comput Biol 10: e1003944.
  • Mezzarane RA, Magalhães FH, Chaud VM, Elias LA, Kohn AF (2015) Enhanced D1 and D2 inhibitions induced by low-frequency trains of conditioning stimuli: differential effects on H- and T-reflexes and possible mechanisms. PLoS One 10: e0121496.
  • Nakajima T, Tazoe T, Sakamoto M, Endoh T, Shibuya S, Elias LA, Mezzarane RA, Komiyama T, Ohki Y. (2017) Reassessment of non-monosynaptic excitation from the motor cortex to motoneurons in single motor units of the human biceps brachii. Front Hum Neurosci 11:19.
  • Moreira LS, Elias LA, Gomide AB, Vieira MF, and Amaral WN. (2017) A longitudinal assessment of myoelectric activity, postural sway, and low-back pain during pregnancy. Acta Bioeng Biomech 19(3): 77-83.
  • Elias LA, Matoso DEC, Watanabe RN, and Kohn AF. (2018) Perspectives on the modeling of the neuromusculoskeletal system to investigate the influence of neurodegenerative diseases on motor control. Res Biomed Eng 34(2): 176-186.

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