Billy Luu
Current Appointments
Research FellowKey Research Areas
Billy Luu (BMedSci, PhD) completed his Honours and PhD in Physiology at NeuRA and UNSW, investigating the roles of perception, muscle perfusion, and postural control in human standing balance. He then spent a few years as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of British Columbia, Canada, researching the vestibular system and postural control where he worked jointly with the Collaborative Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CARIS) laboratory to develop a robotic system to simulate standing balance. Billy has returned to NeuRA to continue his work in muscle physiology, focusing on the respiratory muscles and how they are controlled during normal breathing and in respiratory disorders such as obstructive sleep apnoea.
Publications
2024, 01 Apr
Graded onset of parasternal intercostal inspiratory activity detected with surface electromyography in healthy young females and males
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.00604.2023
2023 Sep
Effect of respiratory muscle training on load sensations in people with chronic tetraplegia: a secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1038/s41393-023-00920-3
2022, 01 Nov
The detection and sensory perception of inspiratory resistive loads in people with chronic tetraplegia
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.00064.2022
2022 Jan
Tongue acceleration in humans evoked with intramuscular electrical stimulation of genioglossus
2021, 07 Oct
Intergenerational Practice in the Community—What Does the Community Think?
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10100374
2021, 01 Jul
Movement of the ribs in supine humans for small and large changes in lung volume
2020
Supraspinal fatigue in human inspiratory muscles with repeated sustained maximal efforts
2019, 01 Jan
Reflex response to airway occlusion in human inspiratory muscles when recruited for breathing and posture
2019
Genioglossus motor unit activity in supine and upright postures in obstructive sleep apnea
2018 Apr
Influence of respiratory mechanics and drive on genioglossus movement under ultrasound imaging
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