Childhood Obesity & Child Development

Gerry Leisman is Director of the National Institute for Brain and Rehabilitation Sciences in Nazareth, Israel and Professor of Neuro- and Rehabilitation Sciences from the Council of Higher Education of the State of Israel and as Professor of Restorative Neurology at Universidad de Ciencias Médicas Facultad Manuel Fajardo, Havana, Cuba. He has examined self-organizing systems in the nervous system applied to cognitive functions in memory, kinesiology, optimization, consciousness, and autism. He has applied optimization strategies to movement, gait, and cognition. In the 1970’s, he was one of the fi rst to identify functional disconnectivities in the brain. His Work in Rehabilitation Sciences, has applied the tools of Industrial Engineering to those with developmental disabilities.