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• Digit-specific aberrations in the primary somatosensory cortex in Writer's cramp.

  OBJECTIVE: One approach to the treatment of focal hand dystonia (FHD) is via sensory-based training regimes. It is known that FHD patients demonstrate…

  Authors: Aimee J Nelson, David T Blake, Robert Chen

  Source: Annals of neurology. 2009 Aug

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• Dysfunctional neural plasticity in patients with schizophrenia.

  CONTEXT: Neural plasticity in the human cortex involves a reorganization of synaptic connections in an effort to adapt to a changing environment. In s…

  Authors: Zafiris J Daskalakis, Bruce K Christensen, Paul B Fitzgerald, Robert Chen

  Source: Archives of general psychiatry. 2008 Apr

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• The relationship between cortical inhibition, antipsychotic treatment, and the symptoms of schizophrenia.

  BACKGROUND: Cortical inhibition (CI) deficits assessed by transcranial magnetic stimulation paradigms, short-interval cortical inhibition (SICI), and …

  Authors: Shi-Kai Liu, Paul B Fitzgerald, Melissa Daigle, Robert Chen, Zafiris J Daskalakis

  Source: Biological psychiatry. 2009 Mar 15

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• Genetic variants at CD28, PRDM1 and CD2/CD58 are associated with rheumatoid arthritis risk.

  To discover new rheumatoid arthritis (RA) risk loci, we systematically examined 370 SNPs from 179 independent loci with P < 0.001 in a published meta-…

  Authors: Soumya Raychaudhuri, Brian P Thomson, Elaine F Remmers, Stephen Eyre, Anne Hinks, Candace Guiducci, Joseph J Catanese, Gang Xie, Eli A Stahl, Robert Chen,…

  Source: Nature genetics. 2009 Dec

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• Reversal of cortical reorganization in human primary motor cortex following thumb reconstruction.

  Deafferentation such as the amputation of a body part causes cortical reorganization in the primary motor cortex (M1). We investigated whether this re…

  Authors: Zhen Ni, Dimitri J Anastakis, Carolyn Gunraj, Robert Chen

  Source: Journal of neurophysiology. 2010 Jan

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• MicroRNA-137 targets microphthalmia-associated transcription factor in melanoma cell lines.

  Micropthalmia-associated transcription factor (MITF) is the master regulator of melanocyte development, survival, and function. Frequent alteration in…

  Authors: Lynne T Bemis, Robert Chen, Carol M Amato, Elizabeth H Classen, Steven E Robinson, David G Coffey, Paul F Erickson, Yiqun G Shellman, William A Robinson

  Source: Cancer research. 2008 Mar 1

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• Changing the "when" and "what" of intended actions.

  Humans often have to modify the timing and/or type of their planned actions on the basis of new sensory information. In the present experiments, parti…

  Authors: Sukhvinder S Obhi, Shannon Matkovich, Robert Chen

  Source: Journal of neurophysiology. 2009 Nov

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• The role of the cerebellum in the pathophysiology and treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders: a review.

  The cerebellum has traditionally been looked upon as a brain area primarily involved in motor behaviour. The last decade has however heralded the cere…

  Authors: Sylco S Hoppenbrouwers, Dennis J L G Schutter, Paul B Fitzgerald, Robert Chen, Zafiris J Daskalakis

  Source: Brain research reviews. 2008 Nov

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• Cerebral blood flow changes induced by pedunculopontine nucleus stimulation in patients with advanced Parkinson's disease: a [(15)O] H2O PET study.

  Patients with advanced Parkinson's disease (PD) develop disabling axial symptoms, including gait disturbances, freezing and postural instability poorl…

  Authors: Benedicte Ballanger, Andres M Lozano, Elena Moro, Thilo van Eimeren, Clement Hamani, Robert Chen, Roberto Cilia, Sylvain Houle, Yu Yan Poon, Anthony E Lang,…

  Source: Human brain mapping. 2009 Dec

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• Cortical and spinal abnormalities in psychogenic dystonia.

  OBJECTIVE: The pathophysiology of psychogenic dystonia has not been examined, but a growing body of literature suggests that abnormal sensory input fr…

  Authors: Alberto J Espay, Francesca Morgante, Jamie Purzner, Carolyn A Gunraj, Anthony E Lang, Robert Chen

  Source: Annals of neurology. 2006 May

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