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Catherine Ojakangas

Ph.D. 1992

Thesis Title: Cerebellar Purkinje cell activity during voluntary motor learning in the primate

Advisor: Timothy Ebner


Thesis Publications:

Ojakangas CL and Ebner TJ. (1991) Scaling of the metrics of visually-guided arm movements during motor learning in primates. Exp Brain Res. 85: 314-323.

Ojakangas CL and Ebner TJ. (1992) Purkinje cell complex and simple spike changes during a voluntary arm movement learning task in the monkey. J Neurophysiol. 68:2222-2236.

Ojakangas CL and Ebner TJ. (1994) Purkinje cell complex spike activity during voluntary motor learning: relationship to kinematics. J Neurophysiol. 72:2617-2630.


Other Publications:

C.L.Ojakangas & J.P.Donoghue (2006). Plasticity of cerebral motor functions. In: Selzer, Clarke, Cohen, Duncan, and Gage . Textbook of Neural Repair and Rehabilitation Neuroplasticity . Cambridge University Press, 126-146.

G.M.Friehs, C.L.Ojakangas , L.L. Carpenter, B. Greenberg, K.L.Chou (2006). Surgical aspects of deep brain stimulation. Med Health R.I. , 89(4):134-6.

C.L.Ojakangas , A. Shaikhouni, G.M.Friehs, A.Caplan, M.Serruya, M. Saleh, D.Morris , J.P.Donoghue (2006). Decoding movement intent from human premotor cortex neurons , J. Clinical Neurophysiology , 23(6):577-84.

C.L.Ojakangas & J.P.Donoghue (2005). Plasticity of cerebral motor functions: Implications for repair and rehabilitation. In: M.E. Selzer, L.Cohen, F.H.Gage . Textbook of Neural Repair and Rehabilitation . Cambridge University Press (in press).

Friehs, G.M., Zerris, V.A., Ojakangas, C.L., Fellows, M.R., and Donoghue, J.P. (2004) Brain-machine and brain-computer interfaces. Stroke 35 (11 Suppl1):2702-5.

Catherine L. Ojakangas, Ammar Shaikhouni, Gerhard M. Friehs, Abe Caplan, Misha Serruya, Maryam Saleh, Dan Morris, John P. Donoghue (2004). Decoding of movement intent from human frontal cortex ensembles.

Catherine L. Ojakangas and John P. Donoghue. (2004). Plasticity of cerebral motor functions: implications for repair and rehabilitation. In: Michael E. Selzer, Leonardo Cohen, and Fred H. Gage. Textbook of Neural Repair and Rehabilitation. Cambridge University Press.


Present Position: Research Associate(Assistant Professor)
Dept. of Surgery, Section of Neurosurgery
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
E-Mail: c.ojakangas.friehs@cox.net
 
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