War Related Illness and Injury Study Center

Neurology

• Reinhard MJ, Allen N, Crock LE, McCarron KK, Veltkamp GM, Brewster RC. Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS) Clinical Normative Data for Gulf War Veterans.
  J Occup Environ Med. 2022 Dec 1;64(12):e799-e804. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000002706. Epub 2022 Oct 3.PMID: 36190917
• Ninneman JV, Gretzon NP, Stegner AJ, Lindheimer JB, Falvo MJ, Wylie GR, Dougherty RJ, Almassi NE, Van Riper SM, Boruch AE, Dean DC, Koltyn KF, Cook DB. The Intersection of Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain, Physical Activity, and Brain Gray Matter in Gulf War Veterans.
  J Neurosci 2022 Jun 13:JN-RM-2394-21. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2394-21.2022.
• Samuel, IBH, Kamila U. Pollin, and Charity B. Breneman. (2022). Lower cortical volume is associated with poor sleep quality after traumatic brain injury.
  Brain imaging and behavior (2022): 16, pages1362–1371 . *
• Pollin, K., Samuel, IBH, Breneman, C., Valmas, M., Brewster, R., Reinhard, M., Costanzo, M., (2022) . Home-Based Assessment of Sleep Quality and Post Concussive Symptoms in Veterans with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.
  Human Computer Interface International Conference 2022. *
• Krishnamurthy J, Engel LS, Wang L, Schwartz EG, Christenbury K, Kondrup B, Barrett J, Rusiecki JA. (2019). Neurological symptoms associated with oil spill response exposures: Results from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Coast Guard Cohort Study.
  Environ Int. Oct;131:104963. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2019.104963. Epub 2019 Aug 2. PMID: 31382236; PMCID: PMC6786260.*
• Trongnetrpunya A, Rapp P, Wang C, Darmon D, Costanzo ME, Nathan DE, Roy MJ, Cellucci CJ, Keyser D. (2019). Single-Trial Mechanisms Underlying Changes in Averaged P300 ERP Amplitude and Latency in Military Service Members After Combat Deployment.
  Front Hum Neurosci. Oct 25; 13:377. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2019.00377. PMID: 31708761; PMCID: PMC6824216. *
• Stefani SP, Breen PP, Serrador JM, Camp AJ. (2019). Stochastic Noise Application for the Assessment of Medial Vestibular Nucleus Neuron Sensitivity In Vitro.
  J Vis Exp. (150). doi: 10.3791/60044.*
• Rajagopalan V, Das A, Zhang L, Hillary F, Wylie GR, Yue GH. (2019). Fractal dimension brain morphometry: a novel approach to quantify white matter in traumatic brain injury.
  Brain Imaging Behav. 13(4):914-924. doi: 10.1007/s11682-018-9892-2.*
• Favre ME, Serrador JM. (2019). Sex differences in cerebral autoregulation are unaffected by menstrual cycle phase in young, healthy women.
  Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 316(4):H920-H933. *
• Xing CY, Serrador JM, Knox A, Ren LH, Zhao P, Wang H, Liu J. (2019). Cerebral Blood Flow, Oxygen Delivery, and Pulsatility Responses to Oxygen Inhalation at High Altitude: Highlanders vs. Lowlanders.
  Front Physiol. 10:61. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2019.00061. *
• Saleh S, Sandroff BM, Vitiello T, Owoeye O, Hoxha A, Hake P, Goverover Y, Wylie G, Yue G, DeLuca J. (2018). The Role of Premotor Areas in Dual Tasking in Healthy Controls and Persons with Multiple Sclerosis: An fNIRS Imaging Study
  Front Behav Neurosci. 12:296. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00296.*">.*
• Serrador JM, Quigley KS, Zhao C, Findley T, Natelson BH. Balance deficits in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome with and without fibromyalgia.
  NeuroRehabilitation. 2018;42(2):235-246.*
• Ratliff WA, Saykally JN, Kane MJ, Citron BA. Neuromuscular Junction Morphology and Gene Dysregulation in the Wobbler Model of Spinal Neurodegeneration.
  J Mol Neurosci. 2018 Sep;66(1):114-120. *
• Dobryakova E, Hulst HE, Spirou A, Chiaravalloti ND, Genova HM, Wylie GR, DeLuca J. Fronto-striatal network activation leads to less fatigue in multiple sclerosis.
  Mult Scler. 2018 Aug;24(9):1174-1182. *
• Wecht JM, Weir JP, Katzelnick CG, Wylie G, Eraifej M, Nguyen N, Dyson-Hudson T, Bauman WA, Chiaravalotti N. Systemic and Cerebral Hemodynamic Contribution to Cognitive Performance in SCI.
  J Neurotrauma. 2018 Aug 16.*
• Rajagopalan V, Das A, Zhang L, Hillary F, Wylie GR, Yue GH. Fractal dimension brain morphometry: a novel approach to quantify white matter in traumatic brain injury.
  Brain Imaging Behav. 2018 Jun 16. *
• Falvo MJ, Rohrbaugh JW, Alexander T, Earhart GM. Effects of Parkinson disease and antiparkinson medication on central adaptations to repetitive grasping.
  Life Sci. 2018 May 1;200:1-5.*
• C Akbar N, Sandroff BM, Wylie GR, Strober LB, Smith A, Goverover Y, Motl RW, DeLuca J, Genova H. Progressive resistance exercise training and changes in resting-state functional connectivity of the caudate in persons with multiple sclerosis and severe fatigue: A proof-of-concept study.
  Neuropsychol Rehabil. 2018 Apr 4:1-13. *
• Castro P, Azevedo E, Rocha I, Sorond F, Serrador JM. Chronic kidney disease and poor outcomes in ischemic stroke: is impaired cerebral autoregulation the missing link?
  BMC Neurol. 2018 Mar 2;18(1):21. *
• Wen PS, Waid-Ebbs JK, Graham DP, Helmer DA. Psychometric Properties of 2 Participation Measures in Veterans With Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.
  Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2018 Feb;99(2S):S86-S93.*
• Serrador JM, Deegan BM, Geraghty MC, Wood SJ. Enhancing vestibular function in the elderly with imperceptible electrical stimulation.
  Sci Rep. 2018 Jan 10;8(1):336. *
• Saykally JN, Ratliff WA, Keeley KL, Pick CG, Mervis RF, Citron BA. Repetitive Mild Closed Head Injury Alters Protein Expression and Dendritic Complexity in a Mouse Model.
  J Neurotrauma. 2018 Jan 1;35(1):139-148.*
• Katzelnick CG, Weir JP, Chiaravalloti ND, Wylie GR, Dyson-Hudson TA, Bauman WA, Wecht JM. Impact of Blood Pressure, Lesion Level, and Physical Activity on Aortic Augmentation Index in Persons with Spinal Cord Injury.</>
  J Neurotrauma. 2017 Dec 15;34(24):3407-3415.*
• Jani N, Falvo MJ, Sotolongo A, Osinubi OY, Tseng CL, Rowneki M, Montopoli M, Morley SW, Mitchell V, Helmer DA. Blast Injury and Cardiopulmonary Symptoms in U.S. Veterans: Analysis of a National Registry.
  Ann Intern Med. 2017 Nov 21;167(10):753-755.*
• Wylie GR, Flashman LA. Understanding the interplay between mild traumatic brain injury and cognitive fatigue: models and treatments.
  Concussion. 2017 Oct 27;2(4):CNC50. *
• Saykally JN, Hatic H, Keeley KL, Jain SC, Ravindranath V, Citron BA. Withania somnifera Extract Protects Model Neurons from In Vitro Traumatic Injury. Cell Transplant.
  2017 Jul;26(7):1193-1201.*
• Rachmany L, Tweedie D, Rubovitch V, Li Y, Holloway HW, Kim DS, Ratliff WA, Saykally JN, Citron BA, Hoffer BJ, Greig NH, Pick CG. Exendin-4 attenuates blast traumatic brain injury induced cognitive impairments, losses of synaptophysin and in vitro TBI-induced hippocampal cellular degeneration.
  Sci Rep. 2017 Jun 16;7(1):3735.*
• Castro P, Serrador JM, Rocha I, Sorond F, Azevedo E. Efficacy of Cerebral Autoregulation in Early Ischemic Stroke Predicts Smaller Infarcts and Better Outcome.
  Front Neurol. 2017 Mar 24;8:113. *
• Serrador JM, Freeman R. Enhanced Cholinergic Activity Improves Cerebral Blood Flow during Orthostatic Stress.
  Front Neurol. 2017 Mar 20;8:103. *
• Castro P, Azevedo E, Serrador J, Rocha I, Sorond F. Hemorrhagic transformation and cerebral edema in acute ischemic stroke: Link to cerebral autoregulation.
  J Neurol Sci. 2017 Jan 15;372:256-261.*
• Wang, C, Costanzo, ME, Rapp, PE, Darmon, D, Nathan, DE, Bashirelahi, K, . . . Keyser, DO. (2017). Disrupted Gamma Synchrony after Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Its Correlation with White Matter Abnormality.
  Front Neurol, 8, 571.*
• ReinhardM, AllenN, WongL, SchwartzBL. (2017). Neuropsychological measurement of inhibitory control in posttraumatic stress disorder: An exploratory antisaccade paradigm, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology. *
• Graham DP, Helmer DA, Harding MJ, Kosten TR, Petersen NJ, Nielsen DA. (2013). Serotonin transporter genotype and mild traumatic brain injury independently influence resilience and perception of limitations in Veterans.
  J Psychiatr Res. 2013 Jun;47(6):835-42.*
• Deegan BM, Sorond FA, Galica A, Lipsitz LA, O'Laighin G, Serrador JM. (2011). Elderly women regulate brain blood flow better than men do.
  Stroke. 2011 Jul;42(7):1988-93.*
• Deegan BM, Serrador JM, Nakagawa K, Jones E, Sorond FA, & ÓLaighin G. (2011). The effect of blood pressure calibrations and transcranial Doppler signal loss on transfer function estimates of cerebral autoregulation.
  IEEE Medical Engineering & Physics, 1, 2505-8. Epub Jan 15.*
• Tang, CY, Carpenter, DM, Eaves, EL, Ng, J, Ganeshalinam, N, Weisel, C, Qian, H, Lange, G, & Fiedler, NL. (2011). Occupational solvent exposure and brain function: an fMRI study.
  Environmental Health Perspectives, 119(7), 908-913. Epub Feb 4. *
• Falvo, MJ, Sirevaag, EJ, Rohrbaugh, JW, & Earhart, GM. (2010). Resistance training induces supraspinal adaptations: Evidence from movement-related cortical potentials.
  European Journal of Applied Physiology, 109(5):923-33. *
• Schilling, BK, Pfeiffer, RF, LeDoux, MS, Karlage, R, Bloomer, RJ, & Falvo, MJ. (2010). Effects of moderate volume, high-load lower-body resistance training on strength and function in persons with Parkinson’s disease: A pilot study.
  Parkinson’s Disease, Mar 16, 824-834. *
• Chapman JC, Anderson AM, Roselli, LA, Meyers, NM & Pincus, JH. (2010). Screening for mild traumatic brain injury in the presence of psychiatric co-morbidities.
  Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 91(7), 1082-6.*
• Shen Y, Findley, P.A., Maney, M.A., Pogach, L.M., Crystal, S., Rajan, M., Findley, T.W. (2008). Department of Veterans Affairs-Medicare Dual Beneficiaries With Stroke: Where Do They Get Care?
  J Rehabil Res Dev, 45(1):43-52. *
• Quigley, K.S. & Stifter, C.A. (2006). A comparative validation of sympathetic reactivity in children and adults.
  Psychophysiology, 3:357-365. *
• Cook DB, Nagelkirk PR, Quresihi B, Peckerman A, Poluri A, Mores J, Natelson BH. (2005). Exercise and neurocognitive performance in chronic fatigue syndrome.
  Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 37(9),1460-7. *
• Moldow RL, Beck KD, Weaver S, Servatius RJ. (2005). Blockage of the glucocorticoid but not the mineralocorticoid receptor prevents the delayed persistent increase in circulating basal corticosterone concentration following stress in the rat.
  Neuroscience Letters, 374:25-28.*
• Quigley, K.S., Myers, M.M. & Shair, H.N. (2005). Development of the baroreflex in the young rat.
  Autonomic Neuroscience, 121(1-2):26-32.>
• Rutner, TW, Ziccardi, VB, Janal, MN. (2005). Long-term outcome assessment for lingual nerve microsurgery.
  Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, 63:1145-1149. *
• Wei W, Sambamoorthi U, Crystal S, Findley PA. (2005). Mental illness, traumatic brain injury and medicaid expenditures.
  Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, 86(5):905-1. *
• Liu WC, Feldman SC, Hung DL, Cook DB, Kalnin A, Komisaruk BR. (2004). FMRI study of acupuncture-induced periacquductal gray activity in humans.
  Neuroreport, 15.*
• Quigley KS. (2004). General adaptation syndrome, parasympathetic nervous system, and sympathetic nervous system (3 entries). In W.E. Craighead & C.B. Nemeroff (Eds.). Concise Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science, 3rd Ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
• Beck KD, Brennan FX, Moldow RL, Ottenweller JE, Zhu G, Servatius RJ. (2003). Stress interacts with peripheral cholinesterase inhibitors to cause central nervous system effects.
  Life Sciences, 73:41-51. *
• Cook DB, Lange G, DeLuca J, Natelson BH. (2001). Relationship of brain MRI abnormalities and physical functional status in CFS.
  International Journal of Neuroscience, 107(1-2):1-6. *
• Dalakas MC, Li M, Fujii M, Jacobowitz DM. (2001). Stiff person syndrome: quantification, specificity, and intrathecal synthesis of GAD65 antibodies.
  Neurology, 57:780-784. *
• Dalakas MC, Fujii M, Li M, Lutfi B, Kyhos J, McElroy B. (2001). High-dose intravenous immune globulin for stiff-person syndrome.
  N Eng J Med, 345:1870-1876.*
• Johnson S, Lange G, Tiersky L, DeLuca J, Natelson B. (2001). Health-related personality variables in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Multiple Sclerosis. Journal of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, 8:41-52.
• Lange G, Holodny A, DeLuca J, Lee HJ, Yan XHM, Steffener J, Natelson BH. (2001). Quantitative assessment of cerebral ventricular volumes in CFS.
  Applied Neuropsychology, 8:23-30. *
• Li M, Dalakas MC. (2001). Abnormal desmin protein in myofibrillar myopathies caused by desmin gene mutations.
  Ann Neuro, 49:532-536. *
• Li M, Dalakas MC. (2000). The muscle mitogen-activated protein kinase is altered in sporadic-Inclusion Body Myositis.
  Neurology, 54:1665-1669. *
• Li M, Dalakas MC. (2000). The expression of human IAP-like protein in the muscles: a possible explanation for the lack of T-cell mediated apoptosis of muscle fibers in inflammatory myopathies.
  Journal of Neuroimmunology, 106:1-5. *
• Dalakas MC, Fujii M, Li M, McElroy B. (2000). The clinical spectrum of anti-GAD65 antibody-positive patients with stiff-person syndrome.
  Neurology, 55:1531-1535. *
• Li M, Dickson DW, Spiro AJ. (1998). Sarcolemmal defect and subsarcolemmal lesion in a patient with g-sarcoglycanopathy.
  Neurology, 50:807-809. *
• Li M, Dickson DW, Spiro AJ. (1997). Abnormal expression of laminin b 1 chain in skeletal muscle of adult-onset limb-girdle muscular dystrophy.
  Arch Neurol, 54:1457-1461. *
• Li M, Siekevitz M. (1993). A cis element required for induction of the interleukin 2 enhancer by HTLV-I binds a novel tax-inducible nuclear protein.
  Mol Cell Biol, 13:6490-6500. *

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