George M. Smith

This study shows that excitatory chemogenetic stimulation during a juvenile window improves functional recovery after spinal cord injury in rats, while inhibition and control conditions show less recovery.

The paper maps pre-phrenic interneuron (PP-IN) connectivity to phrenic motor neurons in uninjured and injured spinal cord, revealing intrasegmental and propriospinal pathways and their plasticity after injury.

This study examines the role of the lateral reticular nucleus (LRN) in skilled reaching and grasping by analyzing kinematic data from LRN-ablated rats, finding deficits in endpoint control and reach timing.

This study investigates the role of the ventral hippocampus and nucleus accumbens in cocaine contextual memory reconsolidation and finds that disrupting these circuits reduces drug-seeking behavior.

This study shows that chemogenetic manipulation of the subthalamic nucleus-substantia nigra pars reticulata pathway reduces amphetamine-induced rotations in Parkinson's disease models.

This study shows that PTEN inhibition promotes partial diaphragm function recovery and axon growth in chronic cervical spinal cord injury, while PTPσ inhibition does not.

This study shows that ZDHHC17 couples DLK and NMNAT2 pathways to control both somal and distal axon degeneration after optic nerve crush.