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Alain Frigon publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alain Frigon sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 113 publications — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Alain Frigon D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alain Frigon sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 35 D-Index — 5th percentile

5% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Alain Frigon is affiliated with the Université de Sherbrooke in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with a significant focus on subfields including Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, Small Animals, Cell Biology, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The main topics covered in their work include Spinal Cord Injury Research, Veterinary Orthopedics and Neurology, Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications, Robotic Locomotion and Control, Muscle Activation and Electromyography Studies, Neuroscience of Respiration and Sleep, and Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders.

Among their recent publications are the following papers: "Control of Mammalian Locomotion by Somatosensory Feedback" (2021) published in Comprehensive Physiology, "The Spinal Control of Backward Locomotion" (2020) published in Journal of Neuroscience, "Modulation of the Gait Pattern During Split-Belt Locomotion After Lateral Spinal Cord Hemisection in Adult Cats" (2022) published in Journal of Neurophysiology, "A Validation of Supervised Deep Learning for Gait Analysis in the Cat" (2021) published in Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, and "Inhibition and Facilitation of the Spinal Locomotor Central Pattern Generator and Reflex Circuits by Somatosensory Feedback From the Lumbar and Perineal Regions After Spinal Cord Injury" (2021) published in Frontiers in Neuroscience.

Frequently appearing publication venues in their body of work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Journal of Physiology
  • Journal of Neurophysiology
  • eLife
  • Journal of Neuroscience

Alain Frigon has collaborated extensively with several coauthors with whom they have co-published multiple works. These frequent collaborators include Boris I. Prilutsky, Ilya A. Rybak, Jonathan Harnie, Johannie Audet, and Charly G. Lecomte.

Best Publications

  • Recovery of Locomotion After Spinal Cord Injury: Some Facts and Mechanisms

    Serge Rossignol;Alain Frigon

  • The neural control of interlimb coordination during mammalian locomotion.

    Alain Frigon

  • Experiments and models of sensorimotor interactions during locomotion

    Alain Frigon;Serge Rossignol

  • Functional plasticity following spinal cord lesions.

    Alain Frigon;Serge Rossignol

  • Possible contributions of CPG activity to the control of rhythmic human arm movement.

    E Paul Zehr;Timothy J Carroll;Romeo Chua;David F Collins

  • Effect of rhythmic arm movement on reflexes in the legs: modulation of soleus H-reflexes and somatosensory conditioning.

    Alain Frigon;David F. Collins;E. Paul Zehr

  • Central Pattern Generators of the Mammalian Spinal Cord

    Alain Frigon

  • Computational modeling of spinal circuits controlling limb coordination and gaits in quadrupeds

    Simon M Danner;Natalia A Shevtsova;Alain Frigon;Ilya A Rybak

  • Control of Mammalian Locomotion by Somatosensory Feedback.

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  • Neuromechanical interactions between the limbs during human locomotion: an evolutionary perspective with translation to rehabilitation.

    E.P. Zehr;Trevor S. Barss;Katie Dragert;Alain Frigon

  • Re-expression of Locomotor Function After Partial Spinal Cord Injury

    S. Rossignol;S. Rossignol;G. Barrière;G. Barrière;O. Alluin;O. Alluin;A. Frigon

  • Plasticity of locomotor sensorimotor interactions after peripheral and/or spinal lesions.

    Serge Rossignol;Grégory Barrière;Alain Frigon;Dorothy Barthélemy

  • Ankle position and voluntary contraction alter maximal M waves in soleus and tibialis anterior

    Alain Frigon;Timothy J. Carroll;Kelvin E. Jones;E. Paul Zehr

  • Neural control of rhythmic human arm movement: phase dependence and task modulation of hoffmann reflexes in forearm muscles.

    E. Paul Zehr;David F. Collins;Alain Frigon;Nienke Hoogenboom

  • Split-belt walking alters the relationship between locomotor phases and cycle duration across speeds in intact and chronic spinalized adult cats.

    Alain Frigon;Marie-France Hurteau;Yann Thibaudier;Hugues Leblond

  • Adaptive changes of the locomotor pattern and cutaneous reflexes during locomotion studied in the same cats before and after spinalization

    Alain Frigon;Serge Rossignol

  • Dual spinal lesion paradigm in the cat: evolution of the kinematic locomotor pattern.

    Grégory Barrière;Grégory Barrière;Alain Frigon;Hugues Leblond;Janyne Provencher

  • Asymmetric control of cycle period by the spinal locomotor rhythm generator in the adult cat.

    Alain Frigon;Jean-Pierre Gossard

  • Evidence for specialized rhythm-generating mechanisms in the adult mammalian spinal cord.

    Alain Frigon;Jean-Pierre Gossard

  • Asymmetric changes in cutaneous reflexes after a partial spinal lesion and retention following spinalization during locomotion in the cat.

    Alain Frigon;Grégory Barrière;Hugues Leblond;Serge Rossignol

  • Left-right coordination from simple to extreme conditions during split-belt locomotion in the chronic spinal adult cat.

    Alain Frigon;Étienne Desrochers;Yann Thibaudier;Marie-France Hurteau

Frequent Co-Authors

Serge Rossignol
Serge Rossignol University of Montreal
Charles J. Heckman
Charles J. Heckman Northwestern University
David F. Collins
David F. Collins University of Alberta
E. Paul Zehr
E. Paul Zehr University of Victoria
Ilya A. Rybak
Ilya A. Rybak Drexel University
Laurent J. Bouyer
Laurent J. Bouyer Université Laval
Natalia A. Shevtsova
Natalia A. Shevtsova Drexel University
Julien Doyon
Julien Doyon Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Stephen P. DeWeerth
Stephen P. DeWeerth Lehigh University
Romeo Chua
Romeo Chua University of British Columbia

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