Neural Conduction

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A neurally efficient implementation of sensory population decoding. 
  • A new dietary therapy for adrenoleukodystrophy: biochemical and preliminary clinical results in 36 patients. 
  • A semiclassical theory for nerve excitation by a low intensity electromagnetic field. 
  • Acetyl-L-carnitine deficiency as a cause of altered nerve myo-inositol content, Na,K-ATPase activity, and motor conduction velocity in the streptozotocin-diabetic rat. 
  • Adaptive immune response to therapy in hmgcr autoantibody myopathy. 
  • Anterior interosseus nerve injury following elbow arthroscopy. 
  • Autonomic and peripheral (sensorimotor) neuropathy in chronic liver disease: a clinical and electrophysiologic study. 
  • Brainstem auditory evoked potential monitoring: when is change in wave V significant? 
  • Cellular effects of deep brain stimulation: model-based analysis of activation and inhibition. 
  • Characterization of refractoriness in the sinus node of the rabbit. 
  • Clinical aspects of MuSK antibody positive seronegative MG. 
  • Composition and topographic organization of signals sent from the frontal eye field to the superior colliculus. 
  • Conduction block and continuous motor unit activity in chronic acquired demyelinating polyneuropathy. 
  • Diabetic neuropathic cachexia and diabetic amyotrophy. 
  • Diagnostic criteria for late-onset (childhood and adult) Pompe disease. 
  • Differential development of cholinergic nerve terminal markers in rat brain regions: implications for nerve terminal density, impulse activity and specific gene expression. 
  • Digitalgia paresthetica with digital neuropathy in rheumatoid arthritis. 
  • Distal acquired demyelinating symmetric neuropathy after vaccination. 
  • Effect of fascicle composition on ulnar to musculocutaneous nerve transfer (Oberlin transfer) in neonatal brachial plexus palsy. 
  • Effects of Tourniquets in the Development of Pain States: a Novel Clinical Pilot Study and Review of Utilization of Tissue Oximetry to Measure Neural Ischemia. 
  • Effects of frequency-dependent membrane capacitance on neural excitability. 
  • Effects of hyperbaric oxygen therapy on long-tract neuronal conduction in the acute phase of spinal cord injury. 
  • Electrical localization of neural activity in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord: a modeling study. 
  • Electrophysiological evidence for afferent nerve fibers in human ventral roots. 
  • Evaluation and surgical management of peripheral nerve problems. 
  • Evidence-based guideline: neuromuscular ultrasound for the diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome. 
  • Factors that influence peripheral nerve regeneration: an electrophysiological study of the monkey median nerve. 
  • Familial hypokalemic periodic paralysis. 
  • From subthreshold to firing-rate resonance. 
  • Functional recordings from awake, behaving rodents through a microchannel based regenerative neural interface. 
  • Gasoline sniffing multifocal neuropathy. 
  • Genesis of the monophasic action potential: role of interstitial resistance and boundary gradients. 
  • Hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy, X-linked: a half century follow-up. 
  • Identification of a new locus for autosomal recessive Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease with focally folded myelin on chromosome 11p15. 
  • Identifying local and descending inputs for primary sensory neurons. 
  • Immobilization-induced changes in motor unit force and fatigability in the cat. 
  • In vivo quantification of excitation and kilohertz frequency block of the rat vagus nerve. 
  • Kilohertz waveforms optimized to produce closed-state Na+ channel inactivation eliminate onset response in nerve conduction block. 
  • Krabbe disease: neurophysiologic studies and MRI correlations. 
  • Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome: clinical diagnosis, immune-mediated mechanisms, and update on therapies. 
  • Lysophosphatidic acid stimulates neurotransmitter-like conductance changes that precede GABA and L-glutamate in early, presumptive cortical neuroblasts. 
  • MNGIE neuropathy: five cases mimicking chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy. 
  • Measurement of intraoperative nerve conduction velocities during anterior interosseous nerve decompression. 
  • Median nerve ultrasonography in carpal tunnel syndrome: findings from two laboratories. 
  • Median nerve ultrasound as a screening tool in carpal tunnel syndrome: correlation of cross-sectional area measures with electrodiagnostic abnormality. 
  • Membrane current from transmembrane potentials in complex core-conductor models 
  • Microscopic variations in interstitial and intracellular structure modulate the distribution of conduction delays and block in cardiac tissue with source-load mismatch. 
  • Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Variation Associated With Peripheral Nerve Function in the Elderly. 
  • Modeling the response of small myelinated axons in a compound nerve to kilohertz frequency signals. 
  • Modelling the effects of electric fields on nerve fibres: influence of the myelin sheath. 
  • Monkey median nerve repaired by nerve graft or collagen nerve guide tube. 
  • Motor cortex excitability after vagus nerve stimulation in major depression. 
  • Motor variant of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy in a child. 
  • Nerve conduction and ultrasound: will the wedding give birth to new morpho-functional measures? 
  • Nerve conduction blockade in the sciatic nerve prevents but does not reverse the activation of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase in spinal microglia in the rat spared nerve injury model. 
  • Neural network classification of nerve activity recorded in a mixed nerve. 
  • Neuralgic amyotrophy (Parsonage-Turner syndrome). 
  • Neurodevelopmental outcomes of umbilical cord blood transplantation in metachromatic leukodystrophy. 
  • Neurophysiologic assessment of mucopolysaccharidosis III. 
  • Newborn screening for Krabbe disease: the New York State model. 
  • Non-monotonic kilohertz frequency neural block thresholds arise from amplitude- and frequency-dependent charge imbalance. 
  • On the Challenges Associated with Obtaining Reproducible Measurements Using SWEI in the Median Nerve. 
  • Patient demographics and health plan paid costs in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy. 
  • Peripheral neuropathy in Krabbe disease: effect of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. 
  • Peripheral neuropathy in Krabbe disease: electrodiagnostic findings. 
  • Physical and genetic mapping of the CMT4A locus and exclusion of PMP-2 as the defect in CMT4A. 
  • Quantitative comparisons of block thresholds and onset responses for charge-balanced kilohertz frequency waveforms. 
  • Re-innervation of guinea-pig superior cervical ganglion cells by preganglionic fibres arising from different levels of the spinal cord. 
  • Real-time prediction of hand trajectory by ensembles of cortical neurons in primates. 
  • Reporting the results of diagnostic neuromuscular ultrasound: an educational report. 
  • Responses in human intercostal and truncal muscles to motor cortical and spinal stimulation. 
  • Reversing nerve-graft polarity in a rat model: the effect on function. 
  • Selective microstimulation of central nervous system neurons. 
  • Selectivity of lingual nerve fibers to chemical stimuli. 
  • Simulating the electrical behavior of cardiac tissue using the bidomain model. 
  • Single fiber electromyography in chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia. 
  • Single-fiber electromyography in myasthenia gravis. 
  • Some observations on fibrillations and positive sharp waves. 
  • Sonographic similarities of inclusion body myositis and myotonic dystrophy. 
  • Sox2 expression in Schwann cells inhibits myelination in vivo and induces influx of macrophages to the nerve. 
  • Spatial heterogeneity of restitution properties and the onset of alternans. 
  • Spontaneous coping strategies to manage acute pain and anxiety during electrodiagnostic studies. 
  • Spread of excitation from the atrium into thoracic veins in human beings and dogs. 
  • Stability of rotors and focal sources for human atrial fibrillation: focal impulse and rotor mapping (FIRM) of AF sources and fibrillatory conduction. 
  • Standards for quantification of EMG and neurography. 
  • Stathmin-deficient mice develop an age-dependent axonopathy of the central and peripheral nervous systems. 
  • Temporal decorrelation of collective oscillations in neural networks with local inhibition and long-range excitation. 
  • The axonal Z-score: Can electrodiagnostic testing find a new role in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy? 
  • The effect of chemical ablation of the endocardium on ventricular fibrillation threshold. 
  • The extrapolated reference values procedure: Theory, algorithm, and results in patients and control subjects. 
  • The more the merrier? 
  • The prolonged burner syndrome. 
  • The role of thrombin and protease-activated receptors in pain mechanisms. 
  • The use of cultured Schwann cells in nerve repair in a rabbit hind-limb model. 
  • Transient lower extremity neurapraxia associated with radical perineal prostatectomy: a complication of the exaggerated lithotomy position. 
  • Transplantation of umbilical-cord blood in babies with infantile Krabbe's disease. 
  • Ultrasound Imaging of Median Nerve Conduit in a Patient With Persistent Median Nerve Symptoms. 
  • Ultrasound diagnosis of bony nerve entrapment: case series and literature review. 
  • Voltage-gated ion channels in nociceptors: modulation by cGMP. 
  • Volume conductor model of transcutaneous electrical stimulation with kilohertz signals. 
  • What happens in lead poisoning? 
  • Yaw direction neurons in the cat inferior olive. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Henriquez, Craig S., Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering
  • Nicolelis, Miguel Angelo L., Duke School of Medicine Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience, Neurobiology