Mohammed Mudarris
PhD candidate / contract
- Name
- M.A.A. Mudarris MSc
- Telephone
- 071 5272727
- m.a.a.mudarris@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-3649-5423
Mohammed is a PhD candidate at Leiden University’s Department of Health, Medical, and Neuropsychology. He completed his M.Sc. in Clinical Neuropsychology from Leiden University (cum laude) and received his B.S. in Biopsychology from the University of California –Santa Barbara.
Research
I am interested in understanding the relation between cognition and movement in health and disease, as well as the role of the senses in rehabilitation and activities of daily living.
In two longitudinal fMRI studies, I aim to examine neural correlates of motor learning with multisensory stimulation. In the first study we focus on upper-limb recovery and attention deficits in stroke patients receiving music therapy. In the second, I examine brain changes in healthy older adults as they learn novel hand movements with the aid of multisensory cues, while simultaneously performing a cognitive task (dual-task).
Keywords: Multisensory stimulation, cognitive-motor interference, motor cognition, motor learning, Stroke neurorehabilitation, music neuroscience
PhD candidate / contract
- Social & Behavioural Sciences
- Psychology
- Health, Medical & Neuropsychology
- Mudarris Mohammed A. Krijt Renske N. Hassell Allyah M. Murphy Tanya M. Ruitenberg Marit F. L. Fokkema Marjolein Schaefer Rebecca S. (2025), Cognitive and motor abilities predict auditory-cued finger tapping in a dual task, Frontiers in Neuroscience 19: 1553548.
- Dimitriadis T., Mudarris M.A.A., Veldhuijzen D.S., Evers A.W.M., Magee W.L. & Schaefer R.S. (2024), Music therapy with adults in the subacute phase after stroke: a study protocol, Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications 41: 101340 (101340).
- Basura Hadeel A Mudarris Mohammed Almubarak Fatimah B Alzahrani Shahad A Alghamdi Hajar Alsulami Ahlam Alnakhli Ameerah Alzahrani Ghadi Tayeb Haythum O (2024), Feasibility Study of the Boston Naming Test for the Arab Population, Cureus : .
- Mudarris M.A. & Schaefer R.S. (2023), 23 musical training may not enhance cognitive-motor integration in healthy young adults, Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 29: 540-540.
- Tayeb H.O., Alghamdi J., Ahmed N., Alsawwaf Y., Alsafi K., Baduwailan A., Yaghmoor B., Elyas T., Mudarris M.A.A. & Weisholtz D.S. (2022), Category-specific fMRI correlates of picture naming: a study with Arabs and Filipinos, Journal of Neurolinguistics 63: 101065.