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Publications by the Neural Circuits for Movement lab.
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Featured Publication
Pathophysiology of Dyt1-Tor1a dystonia in mice is mediated by spinal neural circuit dysfunction
Amanda M. Pocratsky1, FilipeNascimento1, M. Görkem Özyurt1, Ian J. White2, RoisinSullivan3, Benjamin J. O’Callaghan3, Calvin C. Smith1, Sunaina Surana1,4, Marco Beato5, Robert M. Brownstone1 (2023) “Pathophysiologyof Dyt1-Tor1adystonia in Mice is mediated by Spinalneural Circuit Dysfunction.” SCIENCE TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE, vol. 15, no. 694, May 2023, adg3904
Kissane, R. W. P., Ghaffari-Rafi, A., Tickle, P. G., Chakrabarty, S., Egginton, S., Brownstone, R. M., & Smith, C. C. (2021). C-bouton components on rat extensor digitorum longus motoneurons are resistant to chronic functional overload. JOURNAL OF ANATOMY. doi:10.1111/joa.13439
Ronzano, R., Skarlatou, S., Bannatyne, A., Bhumbra, G., Foster, J., Lancelin, C., . . . Beato, M. (2021). On the distribution of spinal premotor interneurons. doi:10.1101/2021.02.10.430608
Smith, C., & Brownstone, R. (2020). Spinal motoneuron firing properties mature from rostral to caudal during post-natal development of the mouse. doi:10.1101/2020.05.15.097436
Smith, C. C., & Brownstone, R. M. (2020). Spinal motoneuron firing properties mature from rostral to caudal during postnatal development of the mouse. The Journal of Physiology. doi:10.1113/JP280274
Jensen, M. P., & Brownstone, R. M. (2019). Mechanisms of spinal cord stimulation for the treatment of pain: Still in the dark after 50 years. European Journal of Pain (United Kingdom). doi:10.1002/ejp.1336
Whatley, B. P., Chopek, J. W., Hill, R., & Brownstone, R. M. (2018). Case Studies in Neuroscience: Evidence of motor thalamus reorganization following bilateral forearm amputations. Journal of Neurophysiology, 120 (4), 1776-1780. doi:10.1152/jn.00120.2018
Brownstone, R. M., & Lancelin, C. (2018). Escape from homeostasis: spinal microcircuits and progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Journal of neurophysiology, 119 (5), 1782-1794. doi:10.1152/jn.00331.2017
Brownstone, R. M., & Chopek, J. W. (2018). Reticulospinal Systems for Tuning Motor Commands. FRONTIERS IN NEURAL CIRCUITS, 12, ARTN 30. doi:10.3389/fncir.2018.00030
Chopek, J. W., Nascimento, F., Beato, M., Brownstone, R. M., & Zhang, Y. (2018). Sub-populations of Spinal V3 Interneurons Form Focal Modules of Layered Pre-motor Microcircuits. Cell Rep, 25 (1), 146-156.e3. doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2018.08.095
Magown, P., & Brownstone, R. M. (2017). A Canadian Winter Indirectly Inactivates a Deep Brain Stimulation System. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES, 44 (3), 332-333. doi:10.1017/cjn.2016.421
Magown, P., Rafuse, V. F., & Brownstone, R. M. (2017). Microcircuit formation following transplantation of mouse embryonic stem cell-derived neurons into peripheral nerve. Journal of Neurophysiology, jn.00943.2016. doi:10.1152/jn.00943.2016
Bui, T. V., Stifani, N., Akay, T., & Brownstone, R. M. (2016). Spinal microcircuits comprising dI3 interneurons are necessary for motor functional recovery following spinal cord transection. eLife, 5. doi:10.7554/eLife.21715
Brownstone, R. M., Rafuse, V. F., & Magown, P. (2016). Tumor prevention facilitates delayed transplant of stem cell‐derived motoneurons. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology. doi:10.1002/acn3.327
Radic, J. A. E., Beauprie, I., Chiasson, P., Kiss, Z. H. T., & Brownstone, R. M. (2015). Motor Cortex Stimulation for Neuropathic Pain: A Randomized Cross-over Trial. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES, 42 (6), 401-409. doi:10.1017/cjn.2015.292
Bui, T. V., & Brownstone, R. M. (2015). Sensory-evoked perturbations of locomotor activity by sparse sensory input: a computational study. JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY, 113 (7), 2824-2839. doi:10.1152/jn.00866.2014
Brownstone, R. M., Bui, T. V., & Stifani, N. (2015). Spinal circuits for motor learning. CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY, 33, 166-173. doi:10.1016/j.conb.2015.04.007
Brownstone, R. M., & Stifani, N. (2015). Unraveling a Locomotor Network, Many Neurons at a Time. NEURON, 86 (1), 9-11. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2015.03.056