Name
- Daofen Chen, Ph.D.
Proceedings
Affiliation
- Program Director
- Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
- National Institute of Health (NIH), USA
Specialties
- Systems and cognitive neuroscience, neural mechanism of sensorimotor control, neurorehabilitation
Education
- B.S. in Biology, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China
- M.S. in Neurophysiology, Shanghai Brain Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- MPT in Physical Therapy and Movement Science, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA
- Ph.D. in Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Selected Publications (Up to 5)
- Matsumura, M., D-F. Chen, T. Sawaguchi, K., Kubota, & E.E. Fetz (1996) Intracortical synaptic interactions in primate motor cortex: connectivity revealed by spike-triggered averaging of intracellular membrane potentials in vivo. Journal of Neuroscience, 16:7757-7767
- Chen, D.-F., K. Ebersole, R.D. Theiss, J.F. Miller, W.Z. Rymer, & C.J. Heckman (2001) Spinal interneurons that receive input from muscle afferents are differentially controlled by dorsolateral descending inputs. Journal of Neurophysiology, 85, 1005-1008
- Dancause, N., S. Barbay, S. B. Frost, E. J. Plautz, D-F Chen, E.V. Zoubina, A. M. Stowe, and R.J. Nudo (2005) Extensive Cortical Rewiring after Brain Injury. Journal of Neuroscience, 25:10167-10179
- Chen, D-F. and E. E. Fetz (2005) Characteristic Membrane Potential Trajectories in Primate Sensorimotor Cortex Neurons Recorded In Vivo Journal of Neurophysiology 94: 2713-2725 (cover art)
- Sanger, T.D., D-F. Chen, M.R. Delgado, D. Gaebler-Spira, M. Hallett, J.W. Mink, and the NIH Taskforce on Childhood Motor Disorders (2006) Definition and classification of negative motor signs in childhood. Journal of Pediatrics (in press)