Dr. Maarten Immink is Senior Lecturer, Human Movement in the School of Health Sciences. His research investigates cognitive and affective factors that influence human performance. He teaches in the areas of motor learning and control within the human movement and clinical exercise physiology undergraduate degree programs. He is also an accredited yoga and meditation teacher.
Experience
–present
Senior Lecturer, Human Movement, University of South Australia
2012–2013
Program Director, Clinical Exercise Physiology, University of South Australia
2010–2012
Program Director, Human Movement, University of South Australia
Education
1999
Texas A&M University, PhD
1995
Texas A&M University, MS
1992
Texas A&M University, BA (Biology/Chemistry)
Publications
2014
Randomized Controlled Trial of Yoga for Chronic Poststroke Hemiparesis: Motor Function, Mental Health, and Quality of Life Outcomes. , Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation
2014
Brief mindfulness-based therapy for chronic tension-type headache: A randomized controlled pilot study. , Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy
2014
Fatigue in neurological disorders: A review of self-regulation and mindfulness-based interventions., Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health & Behavior
2013
Mindfulness training does not reduce generalized hyperalgesia in chronic tension-type headache., Journal of Pain Management
2013
Mindfulness training does not reduce inflammatory cytokine levels in chronic tension-type headache. , Journal of Pain Management
2012
Yoga and exercise for symptoms of depression and anxiety in people with post-stroke disability: A pilot randomised controlled trial. , Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine
2011
Becoming connected: the lived experience of yoga participation after stroke. , Disability and Rehabilitation