PhD 2025
PhD Thesis
Mechanisms and characterization of upper and lower motor pathway activation in people with Parkinson’s disease.
Undergraduate Institution and Major:
St. Olaf College, B.A. in Biology, Spanish, 2019
Graduate Advisor
Colum MacKinnon, Ph.D., Department of Neurology
Matt Johnson, Ph.D., Department of Biomedical Engineering
Graduate Publications
- Lecy E, Linn-Evans ME, Amundsen-Huffmaster SL, Palnitkar T, Patriat R, Chung JW, Noecker AM, Park MC, McIntyre CC, Vitek JL, Cooper SE, Harel N, Johnson MD, MacKinnon CD. Neural pathways associated with reduced rigidity during pallidal deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease. J Neurophysiol. 2024;132(3):953-967.
- Lecy EE, Min HK, Apgar CJ, Maltais DD, Lundt ES, Albertson SM, Senjem ML, Schwarz CG, Botha H, Graff-Radford J, Jones DT, Vemuri P, Kantarci K, Knopman DS, Petersen RC, Jack CR Jr, Lee J, Lowe VJ. Paterns of early neocortical amyloid-β accumulation: A PET population-based study. J Nucl Med. 2024;65(7):1122-1128.
- Rosing J, Doyle A, Brinda A, Blumenfeld M, Lecy E, Spencer C, Dao J, Krieg J, Wilmerding K, Sullivan D, Best S, Mohanty B, Wang J, Johnson LA, Vitek JL, Johnson MD. Classification of electrically-evoked potentials in the parkinsonian subthalamic nucleus region. Sci Rep. 2023;13(1):2685.
- Doyle AM, Bauer D, Hendrix C, Yu Y, Nebeck SD, Fergus S, Krieg J, Wilmerding LK, Blumenfeld M, Lecy E, Spencer C, Luo Z, Sullivan D, Brackman K, Ross D, Best S, Verma A, Havel T, Wang J, Johnson L, Vitek JL, Johnson MD. Spatiotemporal scaling changes in gait in a progressive model of Parkinson's disease. Front Neurol. 2022;13:1041934.
- Brinda AK, Doyle AM, Blumenfeld M, Krieg J, Alisch JSR, Spencer C, Lecy E, Wilmerding LK, DeNicola A, Johnson LA, Vitek JL, Johnson MD. Longitudinal analysis of local field potentials recorded from directional deep brain stimulation lead implants in the subthalamic nucleus. J Neural Eng. 18(4):10.1088/741-2552/abfc1c.
Awards and Honors
- NIH F31
- University of Minnesota Graduate Fellow in Neuromodulation
- University of Minnesota Informatics Institute MNDrive Fellow
- UMN President's Student Leadership and Service Award Recipient
- UMN Graduate Program in Neuroscience Community Engagement Award Winner
