November 11, 2008

Feature Article

• Mirelman A, Bonato P, Deutsch JE.  Effects of Training With a Robot-Virtual Reality System Compared With a Robot Alone on the Gait of Individuals After Stroke.  Stroke. 2008 Nov 6. [Epub ahead of print]
  PMID: 18988916 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Motor Control

• Tseng YW, Scholz JP, Galloway JC.  The organization of intralimb and interlimb synergies in response to different joint dynamics.  Exp Brain Res. 2008 Nov 4. [Epub ahead of print]  PMID: 18982319 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
• Yamasaki H, Tagami Y, Fujisawa H, Hoshi F, Nagasaki H.  Interaction torque contributes to planar reaching at slow speed.  Biomed Eng Online. 2008 Oct 22;7:27.  PMID: 18940016 [PubMed - in process]
• Peelen MV, Mruczek RE.  Sources of spatial and feature-based attention in the human brain.  J Neurosci. 2008 Sep 17;28(38):9328-9. Review. No abstract available.  PMID: 18799666 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Rehabilitation

• Lin KC, Huang YH, Hsieh YW, Wu CY.  Potential Predictors of Motor and Functional Outcomes After Distributed Constraint-Induced Therapy for Patients With Stroke. Neurorehabil Neural Repair. 2008 Nov 4. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 18984830 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
• Ding D, Souza A, Cooper RA, Fitzgerald SG, Cooper R, Kelleher A, Boninger ML. A preliminary study on the impact of pushrim-activated power-assist wheelchairs among individuals with tetraplegia. Am J Phys Med Rehabil. 2008 Oct;87(10):821-9. PMID: 18806509
• Bolliger M, Banz R, Dietz V, Lunenburger L.  Standardized voluntary force measurement in a lower extremity rehabilitation robot. J Neuroeng Rehabil. 2008 Oct 28;5(1):23. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 18957092 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
• Troy KL, Donovan SJ, Marone JR, Bareither ML, Grabiner MD.  Modifiable performance domain risk-factors associated with slip-related falls.  Gait & Posture 2008;28(3):461-5.

 Clinical Neurophysiology

• Brandauer B, Hermsdörfer J, Beck A, Aurich V, Gizewski ER, Marquardt C, Timmann D. Impairments of prehension kinematics and grasping forces in patients with cerebellar degeneration and the relationship to cerebellar atrophy.  Clin Neurophysiol. 2008 Nov;119(11):2528-37. Epub 2008 Oct 2.  PMID: 18835217 [PubMed - in process]
• Ranganathan S, Harmison GG, Meyertholen K, Pennuto M, Burnett BG, Fischbeck KH.  Mitochondrial Abnormalities in Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy.  Hum Mol Genet. 2008 Sep 29. [Epub ahead of print]  PMID: 18824496 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
• Mazerolle EL, D'Arcy RC, Beyea SD.  Detecting functional magnetic resonance imaging activation in white matter: interhemispheric transfer across the corpus callosum. BMC Neurosci. 2008 Sep 12;9:84.  PMID: 18789154 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Technologies

• Scott SH.  Cortical-based neuroprosthetics: when less may be more. Nat Neurosci. 2008 Nov;11(11):1245-6. No abstract available.   PMID: 18956010 [PubMed - in process]
• Chiodo A, Haig AJ, Yamakawa KS, Quint D, Tong H, Choksi VR.  Magnetic resonance imaging vs. electrodiagnostic root compromise in lumbar spinal stenosis: a masked controlled study.  Am J Phys Med Rehabil. 2008 Oct;87(10):789-97.  PMID: 18806507 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
• Hesse S, Werner C, Pohl M, Mehrholz J, Puzich U, Krebs HI.  Mechanical arm trainer for the treatment of the severely affected arm after a stroke: a single-blinded randomized trial in two centers.  Am J Phys Med Rehabil. 2008 Oct;87(10):779-88.  PMID: 18806506 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]