Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• Skubik-Peplaski C, Carrico C, Nichols L, Chelette KC, Sawaki L. Behavioral, neurophysiological and descriptive changes following occupation-based intervention. Am J Occup Ther. In press.

• Danzl M, Chelette KC, Lee K, Lykins D, Sawaki L. Non-invasive brain stimulation paired with a novel locomotor training in chronic stroke: a feasibility study. Poster presented at: 2012 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine-American Society for Neurorehabilitation (ACRM-ASNR) Annual Conference; October 2012; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Chelette KC, Carrico C, Nichols L, Sawaki L. Optimizing transcranial direct current stimulation for motor recovery from severe post-stroke hemiparesis: early results from an ongoing clinical trial. Poster presented at: 2012 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine-American Society for Neurorehabilitation (ACRM-ASNR) Annual Conference; October 2012; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

• Korupolu R, Lee K, Chelette K, Salles S, Sawaki L. Transcranial direct current stimulation paired with robot-assisted treadmill in patients with severe gait deficits following incomplete SCI: a case series. Poster presented at: Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals Conference & Expo 2012; September 2012; Las Vegas, NV.

• Kesar TM, Sawaki L, Burdette JH, Cabrera N, Kolaski K, Smith BP, O'Shea TM, Koman LA, Wittenberg GF. Motor cortical functional geometry in cerebral palsy and its relationship to disability. Clinical Neurophysiology. 2012 Jul;123(7):1383-90.

• Salmon E, Chelette KC, Sawaki L, Sunderam S. Development of an EEG brain-machine interface to facilitate motor recovery from incomplete spinal cord injury: a feasibility study. Poster presented at: 2012 Neural Interfaces Conference; June 2012; Salt Lake City, UT.

• Starr CJ, Sawaki L, Wittenberg GF, Burdette JH, Oshiro Y, Quevedo AS, McHaffie JG, Coghill RC. The contribution of the putamen to sensory aspects of pain: insights from structural connectivity and brain lesions. Brain. 2011 Jul;134(Pt 7):1987-2004.

• Wilson TW, Fleischer A, Archer D, Hayasaka S, Sawaki L. Oscillatory MEG motor activity reflects therapy-related plasticity in stroke patients. Neurorehabil Neural Repair. 2011;25(2):188-193.

• Henzman RC, Chelette KC, Carrico CL, Nichols LR, Sawaki L. Dose-response peripheral nerve stimulation in poorly recovered stroke patients: ongoing study. Grand rounds poster presented at: 2011 Association of Academic Physiatrists Annual Meeting; April 2011; Phoenix, AZ.

• Mudumbi S, Chelette KC, Nichols LR, Henzman RC, Carrico CL, Sawaki L. Non-invasive brain stimulation for improvement of motor function after severe stroke: case study. Poster presented at: 2011 Association of Academic Physiatrists Annual Meeting; April 2011; Phoenix, AZ.

• Wolf SL, Thompson PA, Winstein CJ, Miller JP, Blanton SR, Nichols-Larsen DS, Morris DM, Uswatte G, Taub E, Light KE, Sawaki L. The EXCITE stroke trial: comparing early and delayed constraint-induced movement therapy. Stroke. 2010 Oct;41(10):2309-15.

• Sawaki L, Lee K, Henzman C, Lykins D, Chelette KC. Driving neuroplasticity and gait recovery with transcranial direct current stimulation in incomplete spinal cord injury: a case study. Poster presented at: Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation Spinal Cord Symposium; December 2010; Phoenix, AZ..

• Starr CJ, Sawaki L, Wittenberg GF, Burdette JH, Oshiro Y, Quevedo AS, Coghill RC. Roles of insular cortex in the modulation of pain: insights from brain lesions. J Neurosci. 2009;29(9):2684-2694.

• Lumy Sawaki, Andrew J. Butler, Xiaoyan Leng, Peter A. Wassenaar, Yousef M. Mohammad, Sarah Blanton, K. Sathian, Deborah S. Nichols-Larsen, Steven L. Wolf,David C. Good, and George F. Wittenberg. Constraint-induced Movement Therapy results in increased motor map area in subjects 3-9 months after stroke. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair. 2008 Sep/Oct;22(5):505-513.

• Lumy Sawaki. Emerging Approaches in Rehabilitation after Brain Injury. Editorial. Neurorehabilitation. March 2008.