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Principal Investigator

Marc H. Schieber, M.D., Ph.D. University of Rochester work Box 603 601 Elmwood Ave Rochester NY 14642 office: MC 6-8537 p 585-275-3369 mhs@cvs.rochester.edu

Recent Publications

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• 1. Aggarwal V
  2. Mollazadeh M
  3. Davidson AG
  4. Schieber MH
  5. Thakor NV
  (2013 Mar 27). State-Based Decoding of Hand and Finger Kinematics using Neuronal Ensemble and LFP Activity during Dexterous Reach-to-Grasp Movements. J Neurophysiol. In press.
• 1. Schieber MH
  (2013 Feb 18). Mirror neurons: reflecting on the motor cortex and spinal cord. Curr Biol. 23, R151-2.
• 1. Kim HN
  2. Kim YH
  3. Shin HC
  4. Aggarwal V
  5. Schieber MH
  6. Thakor NV
  (2012 Nov 01). Neuron Selection by Relative Importance for Neural Decoding of Dexterous Finger Prosthesis Control Application. Biomed Signal Process Control. 7, 632-639.
• 1. Saxena S
  2. Schieber MH
  3. Thakor NV
  4. Sarma SV
  (2012 Jul 01). Aggregate input-output models of neuronal populations. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 59, 2030-9.
• 1. Andersen RA
  2. Schieber MH
  3. Thakor N
  4. Loeb GE
  (2012 Mar 01). Natural and accelerated recovery from brain damage: experimental and theoretical approaches. IEEE Pulse. 3, 61-5.
• 1. Kang X
  2. Schieber MH
  3. Thakor NV
  (2012 Jan 01). Decoding of finger, hand and arm kinematics using switching linear dynamical systems with pre-motor cortical ensembles. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2012, 1732-5.
• 1. Schieber MH
  (2011 Dec 01). Dissociating motor cortex from the motor. J Physiol. 589, 5613-24.
• 1. Mollazadeh M
  2. Aggarwal V
  3. Davidson AG
  4. Law AJ
  5. Thakor NV
  6. Schieber MH
  (2011 Oct 26). Spatiotemporal variation of multiple neurophysiological signals in the primary motor cortex during dexterous reach-to-grasp movements. J Neurosci. 31, 15531-43.
• 1. Newman GI
  2. Aggarwal V
  3. Schieber MH
  4. Thakor NV
  (2011 Jan 01). Identifying neuron communities during a reach and grasp task using an unsupervised clustering analysis. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2011, 6401-4.
• 1. Dancause N
  2. Schieber MH
  (2010 Apr 01). The impact of head direction on lateralized choices of target and hand. Exp Brain Res. 201, 821-35.
• 1. Shin HC
  2. Aggarwal V
  3. Acharya S
  4. Schieber MH
  5. Thakor NV
  (2010 Mar 01). Neural decoding of finger movements using Skellam-based maximum-likelihood decoding. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 57, 754-60.
• 1. Law AJ
  2. Sharma G
  3. Schieber MH
  (2010 Jan 01). An information transmission measure for the analysis of effective connectivity among cortical neurons. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2010, 3293-6.
• 1. Aggarwal V
  2. Tenore F
  3. Acharya S
  4. Schieber MH
  5. Thakor NV
  (2009 Jan 01). Cortical decoding of individual finger and wrist kinematics for an upper-limb neuroprosthesis. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2009, 4535-8.
• 1. Schieber MH
  2. Lang CE
  3. Reilly KT
  4. McNulty P
  5. Sirigu A
  (2009 Jan 01). Selective activation of human finger muscles after stroke or amputation. Adv Exp Med Biol. 629, 559-75.
• 1. Reilly KT
  2. Schieber MH
  3. McNulty PA
  (2008 Jul 01). Selectivity of voluntary finger flexion during ischemic nerve block of the hand. Exp Brain Res. 188, 385-97.
• 1. Acharya S
  2. Tenore F
  3. Aggarwal V
  4. Etienne-Cummings R
  5. Schieber MH
  6. Thakor NV
  (2008 Feb 01). Decoding individuated finger movements using volume-constrained neuronal ensembles in the M1 hand area. IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng. 16, 15-23.
• 1. Aggarwal V
  2. Acharya S
  3. Tenore F
  4. Shin HC
  5. Etienne-Cummings R
  6. Schieber MH
  7. Thakor NV
  (2008 Feb 01). Asynchronous decoding of dexterous finger movements using M1 neurons. IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng. 16, 3-14.
• 1. Aggarwal V
  2. Singhal G
  3. He J
  4. Schieber MH
  5. Thakor NV
  (2008 Jan 01). Towards closed-loop decoding of dexterous hand movements using a virtual integration environment. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2008, 1703-6.
• 1. Davidson AG
  2. Chan V
  3. O'Dell R
  4. Schieber MH
  (2007 Dec 21). Rapid changes in throughput from single motor cortex neurons to muscle activity. Science. 318, 1934-7.
• 1. Davidson AG
  2. O'Dell R
  3. Chan V
  4. Schieber MH
  (2007 Jul 30). Comparing effects in spike-triggered averages of rectified EMG across different behaviors. J Neurosci Methods. 163, 283-94.
• 1. Davidson AG
  2. Schieber MH
  3. Buford JA
  (2007 Jul 25). Bilateral spike-triggered average effects in arm and shoulder muscles from the monkey pontomedullary reticular formation. J Neurosci. 27, 8053-8.
• 1. Ben Hamed S
  2. Schieber MH
  3. Pouget A
  (2007 Jul 01). Decoding M1 neurons during multiple finger movements. J Neurophysiol. 98, 327-33.
• 1. Schieber MH
  (2007 Jan 01). Chapter 2 Comparative anatomy and physiology of the corticospinal system. Handb Clin Neurol. 82, 15-37.
• 1. Schieber MH
  2. Rivlis G
  (2007 Jan 01). Partial reconstruction of muscle activity from a pruned network of diverse motor cortex neurons. J Neurophysiol. 97, 70-82.
• 1. Lee D
  2. Schieber MH
  (2006 Oct 01). Serial correlation in lateralized choices of hand and target. Exp Brain Res. 174, 499-509.
• 1. Reilly KT
  2. Mercier C
  3. Schieber MH
  4. Sirigu A
  (2006 Aug 01). Persistent hand motor commands in the amputees' brain. Brain. 129, 2211-23.
• 1. Gardinier J
  2. Franco V
  3. Schieber MH
  (2006 Apr 01). Interactions between lateralized choices of hand and target. Exp Brain Res. 170, 149-59.
• 1. Schieber MH
  2. Rivlis G
  (2005 Nov 01). A spectrum from pure post-spike effects to synchrony effects in spike-triggered averages of electromyographic activity during skilled finger movements. J Neurophysiol. 94, 3325-41.
• 1. Lang CE
  2. Schieber MH
  (2004 Nov 01). Human finger independence: limitations due to passive mechanical coupling versus active neuromuscular control. J Neurophysiol. 92, 2802-10.
• 1. Reilly KT
  2. Nordstrom MA
  3. Schieber MH
  (2004 Aug 01). Short-term synchronization between motor units in different functional subdivisions of the human flexor digitorum profundus muscle. J Neurophysiol. 92, 734-42.
• 1. Schieber MH
  2. Santello M
  (2004 Jun 01). Hand function: peripheral and central constraints on performance. J Appl Physiol. 96, 2293-300.
• 1. Schieber MH
  (2004 May 04). Motor control: basic units of cortical output? Curr Biol. 14, R353-4.
• 1. Lang CE
  2. Schieber MH
  (2004 Apr 01). Reduced muscle selectivity during individuated finger movements in humans after damage to the motor cortex or corticospinal tract. J Neurophysiol. 91, 1722-33.
• 1. Reilly KT
  2. Schieber MH
  (2003 Oct 01). Incomplete functional subdivision of the human multitendoned finger muscle flexor digitorum profundus: an electromyographic study. J Neurophysiol. 90, 2560-70.
• 1. Lang CE
  2. Schieber MH
  (2003 Aug 01). Differential impairment of individuated finger movements in humans after damage to the motor cortex or the corticospinal tract. J Neurophysiol. 90, 1160-70.
• 1. Schieber MH
  (2002 Jul 01). Training and synchrony in the motor system. J Neurosci. 22, 5277-81.
• 1. Schieber MH
  (2002 Jan 01). Motor cortex and the distributed anatomy of finger movements. Adv Exp Med Biol. 508, 411-6.
• 1. Schieber MH
  (2001 Nov 01). Constraints on somatotopic organization in the primary motor cortex. J Neurophysiol. 86, 2125-43.
• 1. Sanes JN
  2. Schieber MH
  (2001 Jun 01). Orderly somatotopy in primary motor cortex: does it exist? Neuroimage. 13, 968-74.
• 1. Schieber MH
  2. Gardinier J
  3. Liu J
  (2001 Mar 15). Tension distribution to the five digits of the hand by neuromuscular compartments in the macaque flexor digitorum profundus. J Neurosci. 21, 2150-8.
• 1. Häger-Ross C
  2. Schieber MH
  (2000 Nov 15). Quantifying the independence of human finger movements: comparisons of digits, hands, and movement frequencies. J Neurosci. 20, 8542-50.
• 1. Schieber MH
  (2000 Feb 01). Inactivation of the ventral premotor cortex biases the laterality of motoric choices. Exp Brain Res. 130, 497-507.
• 1. Poliakov AV
  2. Schieber MH
  (1999 Dec 01). Limited functional grouping of neurons in the motor cortex hand area during individuated finger movements: A cluster analysis. J Neurophysiol. 82, 3488-505.
• 1. Schieber MH
  (1999 Sep 01). Somatotopic gradients in the distributed organization of the human primary motor cortex hand area: evidence from small infarcts. Exp Brain Res. 128, 139-48.
• 1. Georgopoulos AP
  2. Pellizzer G
  3. Poliakov AV
  4. Schieber MH
  (1999 Aug 31). Neural coding of finger and wrist movements. J Comput Neurosci. 6, 279-88.
• 1. Schieber MH
  (1999 Feb 01). Rethinking the motor cortex. Neurology. 52, 445-6.
• 1. Schieber MH
  2. Poliakov AV
  (1998 Nov 01). Partial inactivation of the primary motor cortex hand area: effects on individuated finger movements. J Neurosci. 18, 9038-54.
• 1. Poliakov AV
  2. Schieber MH
  (1998 Feb 20). Multiple fragment statistical analysis of post-spike effects in spike-triggered averages of rectified EMG. J Neurosci Methods. 79, 143-50.
• 1. Schieber MH
  2. Chua M
  3. Petit J
  4. Hunt CC
  (1997 Mar 01). Tension distribution of single motor units in multitendoned muscles: comparison of a homologous digit muscle in cats and monkeys. J Neurosci. 17, 1734-47.
• 1. Schieber MH
  2. Deuel RK
  (1997 Jan 01). Primary motor cortex reorganization in a long-term monkey amputee. Somatosens Mot Res. 14, 157-67.