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- 1Butcher, Ken (Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry)
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A pilot study investigating arm and leg FES-assisted cycling as an intervention for improving ambulation after Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury
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People with incomplete spinal cord injury (iSCI) have the potential for recovering walking through plasticity-induced changes in the remaining neural circuitry. Current rehabilitation for walking attempts to induce such changes by providing relevant sensory inputs and motor commands through...
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Augmenting Plasticity and Recovery from Stroke by Modulating the Extracellular Matrix of the Central Nervous System
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Recovery following stroke occurs almost entirely in the first weeks post injury. Moreover, the efficacy of rehabilitative training is limited beyond this narrow time frame. Sprouting of spared corticospinal tract axons in the spinal cord makes a significant contribution to sensorimotor recovery,...
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Fall 2016
Background: Intracerebral Hemorrhage (ICH) is associated with high morbidity and patients commonly suffer motor dysfunction. ICH volume is a significant predictor of outcome, and perihematoma edema may also represent tissue injury. Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) can be used to assess in-vivo...
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Fall 2009
Stroke is a leading cause of disability in Canada. Delayed hypothermia improves outcome in patients following cardiac arrest and reduces lesion volume in rodents after transient focal ischemia, but less is known about the effectiveness of delayed hypothermia following permanent focal ischemia. In...
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Influence of therapeutic hypothermia on neuroprotection and post-ischemic plasticity in a rat model of global ischemia
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Blood flow to the brain may be disrupted by either a stroke (such as focal ischemia or hemorrhage) or cardiac arrest, where the whole brain becomes ischemic. Both forms of injury result in irreversible neuronal loss leading to neurological impairments and a decrease in the quality of life....
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Spring 2014
Bleeding within the brain parenchyma causes a severe form of stroke named intracerebral hemorrhagic stroke (ICH). An understanding of how brain injury occurs after an ICH may suggest alternative therapies. For this reason, the current dissertation focuses on two important questions of how the...
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Fall 2010
In this thesis sensorimotor integration in the human spinal cord was investigated in the intact (Chapters 2 and 3) and injured nervous systems (Chapter 4-stroke; Chapter 5-spinal cord injury (SCI)). In Chapter 2, I characterized a short-latency reflex pathway between sensory receptors of the...
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Spring 2016
Mild therapeutic hypothermia (HYPO), decreasing brain temperature to 32-35°C, is the gold standard neuroprotectant against ischemia. Cooling also ameliorates several cell death mechanisms in other types of brain injury (e.g., traumatic brain injury). As with many other neuroprotectants, HYPO not...