Walking and Stepping Projects

'Freezing' in Parkinson's disease

Cowie, D., Limousin, P., Peters, A., Hariz, M., Day, B.L. (2012).  Doorway-provoked freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease.  Movement Disorders 27(4), 492-499.

Cowie, D., Limousin, P., Peters, A., Day, B. L. (2010). Insights into the neural control of locomotion from walking through doorways in Parkinson's disease. Neuropsychologia 48(9), 2750-2757

Walking in SWEDDs patients

Mian, O.S., Schneider, S.A., Schwingenschuh, P., Bhatia, K.P., Day, B.L. (2011).  Gait in SWEDDs Patients: Comparison with Parkinson's Disease Patients and Healthy Controls.  Movement Disorders 26(7), 1266-1273

Adaptation to peripheral nerve damage in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease

Ramdharry, G.M., Day, B.L., Reilly, M.M., Marsden, J.F. (2012).  Foot drop splints improve proximal as well as distal leg control during gait in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.  Muscle and Nerve [in press]

Ramdharry, G. M., Day, B. L., Reilly, M. M., Marsden, J. F. (2009). Hip flexor fatigue limits walking in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. Muscle and Nerve 40(1), 103-111

Visually triggered mid-step adjustments in chronic stroke

Nonnekes, J. H., Talelli, P., De niet, M., Reynolds, R. F., Weerdesteyn, V., Day, B. L. (2010). Deficits underlying impaired visually triggered step adjustments in mildly affected stroke patients.. Neurorehabil Neural Repair 24(4), 393-400

Vestibular control of steering

Fizpatrick, R. C., Butler, J., Day, B. L. (2006). Resolving head rotation for human bipedalism.. Current Biology 16(15), 1509-1514

Visual control of stepping

Reynolds, R. F., Day, B. L. (2007). Fast visuomotor processing made faster by sound. The Journal of Physiology 583(3), 1107-1115

Reynolds, R. F., Day, B. L. (2005). Visual guidance of the human foot during a step. The Journal of Physiology 569(2), 677-684

Reynolds, R. F., Day, B. L. (2005). Rapid visuo-motor processes drive the leg regardless of balance constraints. Current Biology 15(2), R48-R49

Dynamic balance during stepping

Lyon, I. N., Day, B. L. (2005). Predictive control of body mass trajectory in a two-step sequence. Experimental Brain Research 161(2), 193-200

Lyon, I. N., Day, B. L. (1997). Control of frontal plane body motion in human stepping. Experimental Brain Research 115, 345-356

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