December 9, 2008

Feature Article

•  van Hedel HJ.  Gait Speed in Relation to Categories of Functional Ambulation After Spinal Cord Injury. Neurorehabil Neural Repair. 2008 Nov 25. [Epub ahead of print]

Motor Control

• Tremblay PL, Bedard MA, Levesque M, Chebli M, Parent M, Courtemanche R, Blanchet PJ.
  Motor sequence learning in primate: Role of the D2 receptor in movement chunking during consolidation.
  Behav Brain Res. 2008 Nov 11. [Epub ahead of print]
• L Sturnieks D, St George R, R Lord S.  Balance disorders in the elderly.  Neurophysiol Clin. 2008 Dec;38(6):467-78. Epub 2008 Oct 7
• Micera S.  Understanding age-related modifications of motor control strategies.  J Neuroeng Rehabil. 2008 Nov 11;5:26. 
• Guerraz M, Bronstein AM.  Ocular versus extraocular control of posture and equilibrium. Neurophysiol Clin. 2008 Dec;38(6):391-8. Epub 2008 Oct 16.

Rehabilitation

• Boyer FC, Percebois-Macadré L, Regrain E, Lévêque M, Taïar R, Seidermann L, Belassian G, Chays A. Vestibular rehabilitation therapy.  Neurophysiol Clin. 2008 Dec;38(6):479-87. Epub 2008 Oct 16.
• Iversen IH, Ghanayim N, Kubler A, Neumann N, Birbaumer N, Kaiser J.  Conditional associative learning examined in a paralyzed patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis using brain-computer interface technology. Behav Brain Funct. 2008 Nov 24;4(1):53. [Epub ahead of print]
• Akgun K, Aktas I, Uluc K.  Conservative treatment for late-diagnosed spinal accessory nerve injury. Am J Phys Med Rehabil. 2008 Dec;87(12):1015-21. 
• Cooper RA, Tolerico M, Kaminski BA, Spaeth D, Ding D, Cooper R.  Quantifying wheelchair activity of children: a pilot study.  Am J Phys Med Rehabil. 2008 Dec;87(12):977-83.

 Clinical Neurophysiology

• Lapash Daniels CM, Ayers KL, Finley AM, Culver JP, Goldberg MP.  Axon sprouting in adult mouse spinal cord after motor cortex stroke.  Neurosci Lett. 2008 Nov 13. [Epub ahead of print]
• Thompson AK, Estabrooks KL, Chong S, Stein RB.  Spinal Reflexes in Ankle Flexor and Extensor Muscles After Chronic Central Nervous System Lesions and Functional Electrical Stimulation. Neurorehabil Neural Repair. 2008 Nov 20. [Epub ahead of print]
• Lamy JC, Wargon I, Mazevet D, Ghanim Z, Pradat-Diehl P, Katz R.  Impaired efficacy of spinal presynaptic mechanisms in spastic stroke patients.  Brain. 2008 Nov 26. [Epub ahead of print]
• Yohn DC, Miles GB, Rafuse VF, Brownstone RM.  Transplanted mouse embryonic stem-cell-derived motoneurons form functional motor units and reduce muscle atrophy.  J Neurosci. 2008 Nov 19;28(47):12409-18.
• Kreitzer AC, Malenka RC.  Striatal plasticity and basal ganglia circuit function.  Neuron. 2008 Nov 26;60(4):543-54.

Technologies

• Nyan MN, Tay FE, Murugasu E.  A wearable system for pre-impact fall detection.  J Biomech. 2008 Dec 5;41(16):3475-81. Epub 2008 Nov 8.
• Cooper RA, Dicianno BE, Brewer B, Lopresti E, Ding D, Simpson R, Grindle G, Wang H.  A perspective on intelligent devices and environments in medical rehabilitation.  Med Eng Phys. 2008 Dec;30(10):1387-1398. Epub 2008 Nov 6.
• Lee JH, Ryu J, Jolesz FA, Cho ZH, Yoo SS.  Brain-machine interface via real-time fMRI: Preliminary study on thought-controlled robotic arm.  Neurosci Lett. 2008 Nov 14. [Epub ahead of print]