A county government hires a new director of its public health department. Before joining the county, the director worked for a nonprofit organization that receives a significant portion of its funding through county grants. The nonprofit is currently applying for another county grant, and the director was previously involved in developing the nonprofit’s grant proposals. The director no longer has any financial relationship with the nonprofit and is not personally involved in reviewing its current grant application. However, several members of the county grant-review committee previously worked with the director at the nonprofit. Does this situation present a conflict of interest for the public health director? Explain whether you would consider it an actual conflict, a potential conflict, or an appearance of a conflict. What steps, if any, should the director or county take to address the situation? Explain your reasoning.

Compared with sham stimulation, anodal tDCS during motor practice usually results in:

Motor skills refer to the ______ and ______ of muscles.

According to the Equilibrium Point Hypothesis, the CNS controls movement by adjusting:

(Evaluation) Why might tDCS produce larger relative improvements in stroke patients compared with healthy individuals?

The cathodal electrode in tDCS generally:

(Cortical Roles) What do reaction-time and instructed-delay paradigms reveal about cortical control of movement?

Transfer of learning refers to how practice of one skill affects:

Before signals travel down long nerve fibers to the spinal cord, movement intentions arise primarily in:

(Synthesis) In Bernstein’s observation of blacksmiths, the hammer tip followed a consistent path despite variable joint angles. What principle does this demonstrate?