Research Bio
My research interests are focused on understanding the neurobiological mechanisms underlying the control of movement and behavior, and applying this knowledge to refining treatments for movement disorders to provide enhanced benefit with fewer side effects.
Current projects include:
1. Measuring movement kinematics in patients with hyperkinetic movement disorders to understand how neural circuits underlying involuntary and purposeful movements interact.
2. Measuring movement kinematics in patients with writing tremor to identify which joints and muscles contribute to resultant oscillatory movements of the pen.
3. Measuring cortical EEG during deep brain stimulation.
2012
Mera TO, Burack MA, Giuffrida JP. "Quantitative assessment of levodopa-induced dyskinesia using automated motion sensing technology." Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine
and Biology Society. Conference. 2012 2012:154-7. |
2010 Nov 15
Foster ER, Campbell MC, Burack MA, Hartlein J, Flores HP, Cairns NJ, Hershey T, Perlmutter JS. "Amyloid imaging of Lewy body-associated disorders." Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder
Society. 2010 Nov 15; 25(15):2516-23. |
2010 Jan 5
Burack MA, Hartlein J, Flores HP, Taylor-Reinwald L, Perlmutter JS, Cairns NJ. "In vivo amyloid imaging in autopsy-confirmed Parkinson disease with dementia." Neurology. 2010 Jan 5; 74(1):77-84. |
2009
Khandwala VJ, Burack MA, Mink JW, Gdowski GT, Gdowski MJ. "Measurement of upper limb kinematics and joint angle patterns during deep brain stimulation for parkinson's disease." Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine
and Biology Society. Conference. 2009 2009:1553-6. |
2001 Jun 19
Silverman MA, Kaech S, Jareb M, Burack MA, Vogt L, Sonderegger P, Banker G. "Sorting and directed transport of membrane proteins during development of hippocampal neurons in culture." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States
of America. 2001 Jun 19; 98(13):7051-7. |
