January 6, 2009

Feature Article

Conchou F, Loubinoux I, Castel-Lacanal E, Le Tinnier A, Gerdelat-Mas A, Faure-Marie N, Gros H, Thalamas C, Calvas F, Berry I, Chollet F, Simonetta Moreau M. Neural substrates of low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation during movement in healthy subjects and acute stroke patients. A PET study. Hum Brain Mapp. 2008 Dec 15. [Epub ahead of print]
Gingras Y, Larivière V, Macaluso B, Robitaille JP. The effects of aging on researchers' publication and citation patterns. PLoS ONE. 2008;3(12):e4048. Epub 2008 Dec 29. PMID: 19112502 [PubMed - in process]

Motor Control

Choi JT, Vining EP, Reisman DS, Bastian AJ. Walking flexibility after hemispherectomy: split-belt treadmill adaptation and feedback control. Brain. 2008 Dec 11. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 19074191 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Rinehart JK, Singleton RD, Adair JC, Sadek JR, Haaland KY. Arm Use After Left or Right Hemiparesis Is Influenced by Hand Preference. Stroke. 2008 Dec 24. [Epub ahead of print]
Swanenburg J, de Bruin ED, Favero K, Uebelhart D, Mulder T. The reliability of postural balance measures in single and dual tasking in elderly fallers and non-fallers. BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2008 Dec 9;9(1):162. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 19068125 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Soechting JF, Flanders M. Sensorimotor control of contact force. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2008 Dec 8. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 19081242 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Fernández-de-Las-Peñas C, Pérez-de-Heredia-Torres M, Martínez-Piédrola R, de la Llave-Rincón AI, Cleland JA. Bilateral deficits in fine motor control and pinch grip force in patients with unilateral carpal tunnel syndrome. Exp Brain Res. 2008 Dec 9. [Epub ahead of print]

Rehabilitation

Hidler J, Nichols D, Pelliccio M, Brady K, Campbell DD, Kahn JH, Hornby TG. Multicenter randomized clinical trial evaluating the effectiveness of the lokomat in subacute stroke. Neurorehabil Neural Repair. 2009 Jan-Feb;23(1):5-13.
Goto A, Okuda S, Ito S, Matsuoka Y, Ito E, Takahashi A, Sobue G. Locomotion outcome in hemiplegic patients with middle cerebral artery infarction: the difference between right- and left-sided lesions. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2009 Jan;18(1):60-7.
Nordmark E, Lundkvist Josenby A, Lagergren J, Andersson G, Stromblad LG, Westbom L. Long-term outcomes five years after selective dorsal rhizotomy. BMC Pediatr. 2008 Dec 14;8(1):54. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 19077294 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Gorassini MA, Norton JA, Nevett-Duchcherer J, Roy FD, Yang JF. Changes in locomotor muscle activity after treadmill training in subjects with incomplete spinal cord injury. J Neurophysiol. 2008 Dec 10. [Epub ahead of print]

Clinical Neurophysiology

Heng C, de Leon RD. Treadmill training enhances the recovery of normal stepping patterns in spinal cord contused rats. Exp Neurol. 2008 Dec 11. [Epub ahead of print]
Bhatt T, Pai YC. Generalization of gait adaptation for fall prevention: from moveable platform to slippery floor. J Neurophysiol. 2008 Dec 10. [Epub ahead of print]
Ranganathan S, Harmison GG, Meyertholen K, Pennuto M, Burnett BG, Fischbeck KH. Mitochondrial abnormalities in spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy. Hum Mol Genet. 2009 Jan 1;18(1):27-42. Epub 2008 Sep 29. PMID: 18824496 [PubMed - in process]
Perumal R, Wexler AS, Binder-Macleod SA. Development of a mathematical model for predicting electrically elicited quadriceps femoris muscle forces during isovelocity knee joint motion. J Neuroeng Rehabil. 2008 Dec 10;5(1):33. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 19077188 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Technologies

Goetz CG, Stebbins GT, Wolff D, Deleeuw W, Bronte-Stewart H, Elble R, Hallett M, Nutt J, Ramig L, Sanger T, Wu AD, Kraus PH, Blasucci LM, Shamim EA, Sethi KD, Spielman J, Kubota K, Grove AS, Dishman E, Taylor CB. Testing objective measures of motor impairment in early Parkinson's disease: Feasibility study of an at-home testing device. Mov Disord. 2008 Dec 11. [Epub ahead of print]
Tunik E, Ortigue S, Adamovich SV, Grafton ST. Differential recruitment of anterior intraparietal sulcus and superior parietal lobule during visually guided grasping revealed by electrical neuroimaging. J Neurosci. 2008 Dec 10;28(50):13615-20.
Gigandet X, Hagmann P, Kurant M, Cammoun L, Meuli R, Thiran JP. Estimating the confidence level of white matter connections obtained with MRI tractography. PLoS ONE. 2008;3(12):e4006. Epub 2008 Dec 23. PMID: 19104666 [PubMed - in process] Mov Disord. 2008 Dec 11. [Epub ahead of print]