Stuart N. Baker

This study shows that phase-targeted peripheral nerve stimulation modulates sensorimotor oscillations more effectively than open-loop stimulation in humans.

This study shows that the severity of flexor synergy after stroke in non-human primates depends on the extent of corticofugal disruption, not specific cortical damage.

This study shows that spinal motor neurons receive impulsive common inputs (iCI) that synchronize their activity and affect the transmission of continuous common inputs (cCI).

The paper identifies a spinal origin for the flexor synergy in non-human primates, showing that spinal microstimulation generates coactivation aligned with the post-stroke synergy.

This study investigates how respiratory rhythms modulate reticulospinal tract activity during motor tasks, finding that reaction times decrease with added auditory stimuli and during inspiration-to-expiration transitions.

The paper investigates neural contributions to muscle fatigability during sustained elbow flexion, finding that motoneuron excitability decreases while corticospinal and reticulospinal tract excitability remains unchanged.

This study overexpresses TDP-43 in rhesus macaques to create an ALS model, showing motor neuron degeneration and widespread TDP-43 pathology.

This study characterizes electrophysiological signals evoked by spinal cord stimulation in rats and macaques, identifying distinct waveform features and potential physiological origins of ECAPs, doublets, ESAPs, and EMG signals.

This study examines arm control recovery after motor cortex and red nucleus lesions in monkeys, finding that damage to specific cortical areas and the rubrospinal tract affects movement speed and recovery differently.

The paper develops a high-density CMOS probe for acute single-unit recordings in awake behaving macaques, demonstrating large-scale neural activity sampling.

NeuroNella is an automated algorithm for identifying neuronal activity from multielectrode arrays, achieving less than 1% error rate in rodent and primate recordings.

This study shows that timing Paired Associative Stimulation (PAS) with the transition from inspiration to expiration enhances motor cortical plasticity, as evidenced by increased MEP amplitudes.

The paper introduces MUedit, an open-source software for decomposing EMG signals and analyzing motor unit discharge timing, with simulated and experimental data for benchmarking.

The paper tracks motor units in non-human primates during force contractions, finding stable recruitment order and a dominant neural component for force control.

This study investigates whether TACS modulates corticospinal beta entrainment in humans using simulations and electromyography, finding no consistent effect.

The paper introduces improved methods to measure corticospinal transmission delays of beta rhythms and shows they align with fastest axon speeds, suggesting two possible mechanisms for fast transmission.

The paper investigates how arm holding is controlled by showing that postural fields integrate reach commands, even after corticospinal damage.

The paper investigates whether non-invasive methods can assess reticulospinal excitability by modulating rapid visual responses during reaching tasks using multimodal stimuli.