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Publications

Publications submitted to the Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development

Ferdjallah M, Wertsch J, Ahad M, Phongsamart G, and McGill KC: Nerve conduction topography in geriatric hand assessment. J Rehabil Res Dev, in press.

Peer Reviewed Articles

McGill KC. Surface electromyogram signal modelling. Med Biol Eng Comput, 42: 446-54, 2004.

Lateva ZC, McGill KC, Johanson ME. Increased jitter and blocking in normal muscles due to doubly innervated muscle fibers. Muscle & Nerve, 28: 423-31, 2003.

Lateva ZC, McGill KC, Johanson ME. Electrophysiological evidence of adult human skeletal muscle fibres with multiple endplates and polyneuronal innervation. J Physiol, 544(Pt 2): 549-565, 2002.

McGill KC. Optimal resolution of superimposed action potentials. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng, 49: 640-650, 2002.

McGill KC, Lateva ZC. A model of the muscle-fiber intracellular action potential waveform, including the slow-repolarization phase. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng, 48: 1480-1483, 2001.

McGill KC, Lateva ZC, Xiao S. Models of the leading edge, terminal wave, and slow afterwave of the muscle action potential. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng, 48: 1357-1365, 2001.

Lateva ZC, McGill KC. Estimating motor-unit architectural properties by analyzing motor-unit action potential morphology. Clin Neurophysiol, 112: 127-135, 2001.

McGill KC, Lateva ZC. Slow repolarization phase of the intracellular action potential influences the motor unit action potential. Muscle & Nerve, 23: 826-827, 2000.

McGill KC, Lateva ZC. Slow repolarization phase of the intracellular action potential influences the motor unit action potential (letter to the editor). Muscle & Nerve, 23: 826-827, 2000.

McGill KC, Lateva ZC. The contribution of the interosseous muscles to the hypothenar CMAP. Muscle & Nerve, 22: 1-10, 1999.

Lateva ZC, McGill KC. Satellite potentials of motor unit action potentials in normal muscles: a new hypothesis for their origin. Clin Neurophysiol, 110: 1625-1633, 1999.

Rose J, McGill KC. The motor unit in spastic cerebral palsy.Develop Med Child Neurol, 40:270-277, 1998.

Lateva ZC, McGill KC. The physiological origin of the slow afterwave in muscle action potentials. Electroenceph Clin Neurophysiol, 109: 462-469, 1998.

Lateva ZC, McGill KC, Burgar CR. Anatomical and electrophysiological determinants of the human thenar compound muscle action potential. Muscle & Nerve, 19:1457-1468, 1996.

Xiao SJ, McGill KC, Hentz VR. Action potentials of curved nerves in finite limbs. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng, 42: 599-607, 1995.

Hentz VR, Rosen JM, Xiao S, McGill KC, Abraham G. The nerve gap dilemma---a study comparing nerves repaired end to end under tension to tension-free nerve graft techniques in a clinically relevant primate model. J Hand Surg, 18: 417-425, 1993.

McGill KC, Lau K, Dorfman LJ. A comparison of turns analysis and motor-unit analysis in electro- myography, Electroenceph Clin Neurophysiol, 81: 8-17, 1991.

Hentz VR, Rosen JM, Xiao S, McGill KC, Abraham G. A comparison of suture and tubulization nerve repair techniques in a primate.J Hand Surgery, 16: 251-261, 1991.

Dorfman LJ, Howard JE, McGill KC. Triphasic behavioral response of motor units to submaximal fatiguing exercise. Muscle and Nerve, 13: 621-628, 1990.

Dorfman LJ, Howard JE, McGill KC. Motor unit firing rates and firing rate variability in the detection of neuromuscular disorders. Electroenceph Clin Neurohysiol, 73: 215-224, 1989.

Howard JE, McGill KC, Dorfman LJ. Properties of motor unit action potentials recorded with concentric and monopolar needle electrodes: ADEMG analysis. Muscle and Nerve, 11: 1051-1055, 1988.

Howard JE, Dorfman LJ, McGill KC. Age effects on properties of motor unit action potentials: ADEMG analysis. Ann Neurol, 24: 207-213, 1988.

Dorfman LJ, Howard JE, McGill KC. Influence of contractile force on properties of motor unit action potentials: ADEMG analysis. J Neuol Sci, 86: 125-136, 1988.

McGill KC, Cummins KL, Dorfman LJ. Automatic decomposition of the clinical electromyogram. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng, BME-32: 470-477, 1985.

McGill KC, Dorfman LJ. Automatic decomposition electromyography: validation and normative data in brachial biceps. Electroenceph Clin Neurophysiol, 61: 453-461, 1985.

McGill KC, Dorfman LJ. High-resolution alignment of sampled waveforms. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng, BME-31: 462-468, 1984.

McGill KC, Cummins KL, Dorfman LJ, Berlizot BB, Luetkemeyer K, Nishimura DG, Widrow B. On the nature and elimination of stimulus artifact in nerve signals evoked and recorded using surface electrodes. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng, BME-29: 129-137, 1982.

Recent Conference Presentations and Abstracts

Lateva ZC and McGill KC: Organization of the motor units in a series-fibered human muscle: electromyographical study. Workshop on Investigation of Human Muscle Function in Vivo, Vanderbilt University, October 2005.

Kothari D, McGill KC, Patten C. Severity of motor dysfunction corresponds with activation impairment in post-stroke hemiparesis. Soc Neurosci Abstr, 2004.

Lateva ZC, McGill KC. Electrophysiological evidence of branched muscle fibers in the normal human brachioradialis muscle. 8th Quantitative EMG Congress, 2004.

Lateva ZC, McGill KC. Coordination of motor units in different proximodistal bands of a series-fibered muscle. 15th Congress Intl Soc Electrophysiol Kinesiol, 2004.

McGill KC, Lateva ZC, Johanson ME. Validation of a computer-aided EMG decomposition method. IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc Conf, 4744-4747, 2004.

McGill KC, Lateva ZC. Motoneurons that co-innervate doubly innervated brachioradialis muscle fibers are not highly synchronized. 8th Quantitative EMG Congress, 2004.

Lateva ZC, McGill KC, Johanson ME. Donor muscle remodeling after tendon transfer surgery in tetraplegic patients. Am Assoc Electrodiagnostic Med 50th Ann Sci Mtg, 2003.

McGill KC, Lateva ZC. Effect of common drive on motoneuron interdischarge interval variability. Am Assoc Electrodiagnostic Med 50th Ann Sci Mtg, 2003.

Lateva ZC, McGill KC. Jitter and blocking in a normal muscle due to polyneuronally innervated muscle fibers. 49th Ann Sci Mtg Am Assoc Electrodiagnostic Medicine, Toronto, Canada, Oct, 2002.

McGill KC, Rose J, Lateva ZC. Motor-unit recruitment and firing-rate modulation in cerebral palsy. 49th Ann Sci Mtg Am Assoc Electrodiagnostic Medicine, Toronto, Canada, Oct, 2002.

Muscle Activation and Motor-Unit Firing Characteristics in Cerebral Palsy - 6th Annual Gait and Clinical Movement Analysis Meeting, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Northern California, Sacramento, CA, April 25-28, 2001.

Patten C, McGill KC, Rose J, Lateva ZC. Common drive among concurrently active motor units in cerebral palsy and post-stroke hemiparesis. Soc Neurosci Abstr, 26: 462, 2000.

Patten C, Gardner MC, Dickinson LM, McGill KC, Zajac FE. Altered motor unit activity corresponds with weakness and locomotor disability in post-stroke hemiparesis. Neurol Report, 24: 198, 2000.

Rose J, McGill KC. Evaluation of muscle activation and motor-unit firing characteristics in cerebral palsy. Symp Pediatric Motor Disorders, Toronto, Canada, 2000.

Rose J, McGill KC. Muscle activation and motor unit firing characteristics in cerebral palsy. Proc 6^th Ann Mtg Soc Gait Clin Movement Analysis, 2001.

Abstracts - 2006

Lateva ZC, McGill KC. Architecture of a series-fibered human muscle: EMG study of brachioradialis. Proc 16th Congress Intl Soc Electrophysiol Kinseiol (ISEK), 2006.

Marateb HR, McGill KC. Knowledge-based automatic decomposition of EMG signals. Proc 16th Congress Intl Soc Electrophysiol Kinesiol (ISEK), 2006.

Invited Lectures

McGill KC: Doubly innervated, branched, and recurrent muscle fibers in normal muscles. Institute for Fundamental and Clinical Human Movement Sciences Colloquium, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 2005.

McGill KC: Restoration of pinch in tetraplegia. Institute of Orthopedics, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, June 2005.

McGill KC: Doubly innervated, branched, and recurrent muscle fibers in normal muscles. Institute of Neurology, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, July 2005.

McGill KC, Lateva ZC. The dynamic sensitivity of human motoneurons.15th Congress Intl Soc Electrophysiol Kinesiol (ISEK), Boston, MA, Jun, 2004.

McGill KC. Contributions of motor-unit recruitment and rate coding to force production. Am Assoc Electrodiagnostic Med 50th Ann Sci Mtg, San Francisco, CA, Sep, 2003.

McGill KC. Deconstructing EMG: using EMG to investigate motor-unit physiology and anatomy in normal subjects and subjects with cerebral palsy. From Gee Whiz to What Is Symposium, Am Soc Neurorehabilitation, San Diego, CA, 2000.

Last updated 10/10/2007