Establishing a trans-atlantic partnership for studying the neural networks for motor skill learning in the human brain
Lead Research Organisation:
University College London
Department Name: Institute of Neurology
Abstract
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Publications
Bernhardt J
(2017)
Agreed definitions and a shared vision for new standards in stroke recovery research: The Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Roundtable taskforce.
in International journal of stroke : official journal of the International Stroke Society
Bernhardt J
(2017)
Agreed Definitions and a Shared Vision for New Standards in Stroke Recovery Research: The Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Roundtable Taskforce.
in Neurorehabilitation and neural repair
Bestmann S
(2015)
The uses and interpretations of the motor-evoked potential for understanding behaviour.
in Experimental brain research
Diedrichsen J
(2013)
Two distinct ipsilateral cortical representations for individuated finger movements.
in Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)
Grimaldi G
(2016)
Cerebellar Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (ctDCS): A Novel Approach to Understanding Cerebellar Function in Health and Disease.
in The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry
Reinkensmeyer DJ
(2016)
Computational neurorehabilitation: modeling plasticity and learning to predict recovery.
in Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
Yousif N
(2015)
Proprioception in motor learning: lessons from a deafferented subject.
in Experimental brain research
| Description | The partnership grant fosters exchange between UCL and Johns Hopkins Medical School, specifically regarding stroke research and rehabilitation. The partnership has led to continued collaborative work between Profs Sven Bestmann, Nick Ward, John Krakauer, and Pablo Celnik. Several exchanges of post-docs have taken place, which have led/will lead to joint publications. Profs Ward & Krakauer have been appointed to the Cereneo advisory board. Profs Bestmann and Krakauer have jointly contributed to the new edition of the Gazzaniga 'Cognitive Neuroscience' book. Profs Ward and Krakauer have contributed to several international position papers for neurorehabilitation, based on discussions and collaboration initiated by this project |
| Exploitation Route | Outcome of partnership likely to inform stroke rehabilitation Partnership has led to a critical reappraisal of the interpretation of motor evoked potentials International position papers on neurorehabilitation |
| Sectors | Healthcare |
| Description | Advisory board |
| Organisation | Johns Hopkins University |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Dr Nick Ward and Dr John Krakauer have been appointed as an advisor for the Cereneo Centre for Neurology and rehabilitation, Vitznau, Switzerland |
| Collaborator Contribution | Prof John Krakauer is one of the Johns Hopkins partners of the partnering award |
| Impact | N/a |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Johns Hopkins partnership |
| Organisation | Johns Hopkins Medicine |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Hospitals |
| PI Contribution | Organisation of two meetings, one in London one in Baltimore; student/post-doc exchanges; grant applications; joint papers and reviews |
| Collaborator Contribution | Organisation of two meetings, one in London one in Baltimore; student/post-doc exchanges; grant applications; joint papers and reviews |
| Impact | Two joint meetings Organisation of two meetings, one in London one in Baltimore; student/post-doc exchanges; grant applications; joint papers and reviews |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | Joint PhD supervision on stroke rehabilitation |
| Organisation | Johns Hopkins University |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The partnership has lead to a continued collaboration with our partners at Johns Hopkins University, on developing novel behavioural approaches to stroke rehabilitation. Together with Prof John Krakauer, we are supervising one PhD student (2017-present) working on characterizing the changes in arm control following intensive upper limb therapy. This work has been enabled by the partnership formed throughout this funded project |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners controbute to the joint supervision of the PhD student |
| Impact | The output will be published through scientific publications resulting from the PhD porject |
| Start Year | 2017 |