Lexi Trinh Huynh, MPH
Trinh Huynh is a Graduate Student Trainee at the Exercise Neuroscience Research Lab at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She graduated from Vietnam National University with her Bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology specializing in Biomedical Sciences. She received a Master’s degree in Public Health from UAB. She is interested in working on intervention programs to promote physical activity/exercise and other health behaviors in people with multiple sclerosis. In her spare time, she enjoys crafting, practicing yoga, hiking, and other outdoor activities.
Prof. Robert Motl
Primary research interest: Prof. Robert Motl has systematically developed a research agenda that focuses on physical activity and its measurement, predictors, and consequences in persons with neurological diseases, particularly multiple sclerosis (MS). Prof. Motl has generated a body of research on the validity of common physical activity measures in persons with MS. This has resulted in foundational research on quantifying differences in physical activity, particularly rates of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, in persons with MS. These two lines of research have provided the basis for examining the outcomes of physical activity in MS, particularly beneficial adaptations in brain structure, cognition, depression, fatigue, walking disability, and quality of life. Prof. Motl has undertaken research on social-cognitive predictors of physical activity that has informed the design of behavioral interventions for increasing physical activity in MS. This agenda serves as a test-bed for application and expansion into other conditions such as spinal cord injury and Parkinson’s disease.
