School of Engineering

Dr Aleksandra Vuckovic

  • Lecturer Reh Eng/Biomech (Biomedical Engineering)

email: Aleksandra.Vuckovic@glasgow.ac.uk


Research interests

My research interests are in developing different methods to help patients with sensory-motor impairments to improve their motor functions through functional electrical neurostimulation/neuromodulation. Area of particular interest are techniques for selective nerve stimulation that can be applied in graded activation of skeletal muscles, assisted bladder and bowel emptying or selective nerve activation in multimodal nerves, like the Vagal nerve.

I am also interested in Brain computer interface, as an new form of non-muscular channel for communication between a patients and its environment, which compensates a loss of sensory-motor functions or alternatively provides strengthening or modulation of preserved neuro-muscular pathways in patients with impairments of the Central Nervous System.

Further areas of interest are improvements of existing rehabilitation therapies combining Brain Computer Interface and Functional electrical stimulation and exploring correlation between functional recovery and changes in the brain responses i.e., brain plasticity.

Between 1992 and 2000 I worked on industrial process control and was a Chartered Engineer (Serbian Professional State Exam approved by Serbian Chamber of Commerce). I received my PhD from the Centre for Sensory-Motor Interaction, Aalborg University, Denmark in 2004, where I spent one more year as a PostDoc. Between 2005 and 2007 I worked as a senior research officer at the Brain-Computer Interface Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Essex.

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2012

Kalauzi, A., Bojić, T., and Vuckovic, A. (2012) Modeling the relationship between Higuchi's fractal dimension and Fourier spectra of physiological signals. Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing . ISSN 0140-0118 (doi:10.1007/s11517-012-0913-9) (In Press)

Kalauzi, A., Vuckovic, A. , and Bojić, T. (2012) EEG alpha phase shifts during transition from wakefulness to drowsiness. International Journal of Psychophysiology . ISSN 0167-8760 (doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2012.04.012) (In Press)

Vuckovic, A., and Sepulveda, F. (2012) A two-stage four-class BCI based on imaginary movements of the left and the right wrist. Medical Engineering and Physics . ISSN 1350-4533 (doi:10.1016/j.medengphy.2011.11.001)

2011

Fang, J., Gollee, H. , Galen, S., Allan, D.B., Conway, B.A., and Vuckovic, A. (2011) Kinematic modelling of a robotic gait device for early rehabilitation of walking. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine, 225 (12). pp. 1177-1187. ISSN 0954-4119 (doi:10.1177/0954411911424976)

Vuckovic, A., Hasan, M.A., Conway, B.A., Allan, D.B., and Fraser, M. (2011) Neurofeedback for treatment of neuropathic pain in SCI patients. SCIence Research Update, 1 . p. 18.

Vuckovic, A., Hasan, M.A., Nasseroleslami, B., Conway, B.A., Allan, D.B., and Fraser, M. (2011) Motor imagery in spinal cord injury with neuropathic pain. In: 4th International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies , 26-29 Oct 2011, Barcelona, Spain.

Vuckovic, A., Wallace, L., and Allan, D. (2011) Hybrid BCI controlled FES for rehabilitation of the hand in acute tetraplegic patients. In: International UKIERI Workshop on the Fusion of BCI and Assistive Robotics, 6-7 JuLy 2011, University of Ulster, Ireland. (Unpublished)

2010

Vuckovic, A. (2010) Motor imagery questionnaire as a method to detect BCI illiteracy. In: 3rd International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies, 7-10 Nov 2010, Rome, Italy.

Vuckovic, A., and Dalgarno, A. (2010) Hybrid BCI for neurorehabilitation of a hand. In: 4th Scottish Stroke Research network SSRN Annual Conference, 4 Nov 2010, Glasgow, UK.

Bojić, T., Vuckovic, A. , and Kalauzi, A. (2010) Modeling EEG fractal dimension changes in wake and drowsy states in humans: a preliminary study. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 262 (2). pp. 214-222. ISSN 0022-5193 (doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.10.001)

Fang, J., Galen, S., Gollee, H. , Conway, B., and Vuckovic, A. (2010) Modelling of a gait robotic device for an early rehabilitation of walking. In: 17th Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics, 5-8 Jul 2010, Edinburgh, UK.

Vuckovic, A., and Dalgarno, A. (2010) Hybrid BCI for neurorehabilitation of a hand. In: Bioengineering10, 15-16 Sep 2010, Nottingham, UK.

2009

Bojic, T., Kalauzi, A., and Vuckovic, A. (2009) Changes in complexity of electronencephalographic signals during transition from alertness to drowsiness in humans. In: 9th Symposium of Clinical Neurophysiology , Belgrade, Serbia.

Vuckovic, A. (2009) Non-invasive BCI: how far can we get with motor imagination? Clinical Neurophysiology, 120 (8). pp. 1422-1423. ISSN 1388-2457 (doi:10.1016/j.clinph.2009.06.007)

2008

Vuckovic, A., and Sepulveda, F. (2008) A four-class BCI based on motor imagination of the right and the left hand wrist. In: 1st International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies (ISABEL), 25-28 Oct 2008, Aalborg, Denmark.

Vuckovic, A., and Sepulveda, F. (2008) Delta band contribution in cue based single trial classification of real and imaginary wrist movements. Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, 46 (6). pp. 529-539. ISSN 0140-0118 (doi:10.1007/s11517-008-0345-8)

Vuckovic, A. (2008) Quantification and visualisation of differences between two motor tasks based on energy density maps for brain–computer interface applicatio. Clinical Neurophysiology, 119 (2). pp. 446-458. ISSN 1388-2457 (doi:10.1016/j.clinph.2007.10.015)

Vuckovic, A., Tosato, M., and Struijk, J.J. (2008) A comparative study of three techniques for diameter selective fiber activation in the vagal nerve: anodal block, depolarizing prepulses and slowly rising pulses. Journal of Neural Engineering, 5 (3). pp. 275-286. ISSN 1741-2560 (doi:10.1088/1741-2560/5/3/002)

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