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Neuroscience
New Zealand
2026

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Neuroscience

D-Index
63
Citations
15437
World Ranking
3379
National Ranking
11

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in New Zealand Leader Award

Overview

Cathy M. Stinear is affiliated with the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of medicine and neuroscience, particularly within the subfields of rehabilitation, neurology, epidemiology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, and cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist's work emphasizes several main topics, including stroke rehabilitation and recovery, transcranial magnetic stimulation studies, acute ischemic stroke management, cerebral palsy and movement disorders, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, muscle activation and electromyography studies, and botulinum toxin and related neurological disorders.

Recent scholarly contributions include publications such as:

  • Advances and challenges in stroke rehabilitation, 2020, The Lancet Neurology
  • Clinical diagnostic utility of transcranial magnetic stimulation in neurological disorders. Updated report of an IFCN committee, 2023, Clinical Neurophysiology
  • Motor rehabilitation after stroke: European Stroke Organisation (ESO) consensus-based definition and guiding framework, 2023, European Stroke Journal
  • The ENIGMA Stroke Recovery Working Group: Big data neuroimaging to study brain-behavior relationships after stroke, 2020, Human Brain Mapping
  • Association of Brain Age, Lesion Volume, and Functional Outcome in Patients With Stroke, 2023, Neurology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Cathy M. Stinear include:

  • Winston D. Byblow
  • Marie-Claire Smith
  • Michael R. Borich
  • Lara A. Boyd
  • Amy Brodtmann

The scientist regularly publishes in journals and venues such as:

  • Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair
  • Clinical Neurophysiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • European Stroke Journal
  • Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging

The research portfolio of Cathy M. Stinear comprises a significant output in medicine, with 95 publications, complemented by 33 publications in neuroscience. Their contributions extend to a variety of rehabilitation and neurological studies informed by clinical and imaging data, addressing complex issues in brain injury and recovery.

Best Publications

  • Functional potential in chronic stroke patients depends on corticospinal tract integrity

    Cathy M. Stinear;P. Alan Barber;Peter R. Smale;James P. Coxon

  • Converging evidence for a fronto-basal-ganglia network for inhibitory control of action and cognition.

    Adam R. Aron;Sarah Durston;Dawn M. Eagle;Gordon D. Logan

  • Advances and challenges in stroke rehabilitation.

    Cathy M Stinear;Catherine E Lang;Steven Zeiler;Winston D Byblow

  • Biomarkers of Stroke Recovery: Consensus-Based Core Recommendations from the Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Roundtable.

    Lara A Boyd;Kathryn S Hayward;Nick S Ward;Cathy M Stinear

  • The PREP algorithm predicts potential for upper limb recovery after stroke.

    Cathy M. Stinear;P. Alan Barber;P. Alan Barber;Matthew Petoe;Samir Anwar

  • Kinesthetic, but not visual, motor imagery modulates corticomotor excitability

    Cathy M. Stinear;Winston D. Byblow;Maarten Steyvers;Oron Levin

  • Prediction of recovery of motor function after stroke

    Cathy Stinear

  • Proportional recovery after stroke depends on corticomotor integrity

    Winston D. Byblow;Cathy M. Stinear;P. Alan Barber;Matthew A. Petoe;Matthew A. Petoe

  • Intracortical inhibition during volitional inhibition of prepared action

    James Peter Coxon;Cathy M Stinear;Winston D Byblow

  • PREP2: A biomarker-based algorithm for predicting upper limb function after stroke

    Cathy M. Stinear;Winston D. Byblow;Suzanne J. Ackerley;Marie-Claire Smith

  • Prediction of motor recovery after stroke: advances in biomarkers

    Cathy M Stinear

  • Priming the motor system enhances the effects of upper limb therapy in chronic stroke

    Cathy M. Stinear;P. Alan Barber;James P. Coxon;Melanie K. Fleming

  • Contralesional Hemisphere Control of the Proximal Paretic Upper Limb following Stroke

    Lynley Bradnam;Cathy Stinear;Peter Barber;Winston Byblow

  • Responding with restraint: What are the neurocognitive mechanisms?

    Sara Jahfari;Cathy M. Stinear;Mike Claffey;Frederick Verbruggen

  • TMS measures of motor cortex function after stroke: A meta-analysis

    Michelle N. McDonnell;Cathy M. Stinear

  • Role of intracortical inhibition in selective hand muscle activation.

    Cathy M. Stinear;Winston D. Byblow

  • Combining Theta Burst Stimulation With Training After Subcortical Stroke

    Suzanne J. Ackerley;Cathy M. Stinear;P. Alan Barber;Winston D. Byblow

  • Clinical diagnostic utility of transcranial magnetic stimulation in neurological disorders. Updated report of an IFCN committee

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  • Primary motor cortex and movement prevention: Where Stop meets Go

    Cathy M Stinear;James Peter Coxon;Winston D Byblow

  • Selective inhibition of movement

    James Peter Coxon;Cathy M Stinear;Winston D Byblow

  • Carbohydrate in the mouth immediately facilitates motor output

    Nicholas Gant;Cathy M. Stinear;Winston D. Byblow

  • Prediction Tools for Stroke Rehabilitation

    Cathy M. Stinear;Marie-Claire Smith;Winston D. Byblow

Frequent Co-Authors

Winston D. Byblow
Winston D. Byblow University of Auckland
Nick S. Ward
Nick S. Ward University College London
Lars T. Westlye
Lars T. Westlye University of Oslo
Steven A. Kautz
Steven A. Kautz Medical University of South Carolina
George F. Wittenberg
George F. Wittenberg University of Pittsburgh
Bradley J. MacIntosh
Bradley J. MacIntosh Sunnybrook Health Science Centre
Lara A. Boyd
Lara A. Boyd University of British Columbia
Colleen A. Hanlon
Colleen A. Hanlon Wake Forest University
Surjo R. Soekadar
Surjo R. Soekadar Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Benjamin Thompson
Benjamin Thompson University of Waterloo

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