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Derek G. Kamper is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research spans multiple intersecting fields primarily focused on medicine, engineering, and neuroscience, with significant contributions across biomedical engineering, rehabilitation, cognitive neuroscience, neurology, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

Their work emphasizes key topics such as muscle activation and electromyography studies, stroke rehabilitation and recovery, botulinum toxin and related neurological disorders, motor control and adaptation, neuroscience and neural engineering, cerebral palsy and movement disorders, as well as EEG and brain-computer interfaces.

Derek G. Kamper's recent publications demonstrate their engagement with clinical therapy, robotics, and neurological impairments in stroke survivors. Notable papers include:

  • Utilizing multi-user virtual reality to bring clinical therapy into stroke survivors' homes (2020, Journal of Hand Therapy)
  • Mechanical Aspects of Robot Hands, Active Hand Orthoses, and Prostheses: A Comparative Review (2020, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics)
  • Characteristics of the severely impaired hand in survivors of stroke with chronic impairments (2021, Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation)
  • Concurrent and Continuous Prediction of Finger Kinetics and Kinematics via Motoneuron Activities (2022, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering)
  • Survivors of Chronic Stroke Experience Continued Impairment of Dexterity But Not Strength in the Nonparetic Upper Limb (2020, Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation)

The scientist collaborates frequently with a range of co-authors, including Xiaogang Hu, Katherine R. Saul, Alexander J. Barry, Mohammad Ghassemi, and Mary Ellen Stoykov. These collaborations reflect interdisciplinary approaches to understanding motor control and rehabilitation.

Publication venues where Derek G. Kamper has contributed extensively include:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Journal of Biomechanics
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
  • Computers in Biology and Medicine

Best Publications

  • A Pneumatic Glove and Immersive Virtual Reality Environment for Hand Rehabilitative Training After Stroke

    Lauri Connelly;Yicheng Jia;Maria L Toro;Mary Ellen Stoykov

  • Alterations in reaching after stroke and their relation to movement direction and impairment severity.

    Derek G. Kamper;Alicia N. McKenna-Cole;Leonard E. Kahn;David J. Reinkensmeyer

  • Hand Rehabilitation Following Stroke: A Pilot Study of Assisted Finger Extension Training in a Virtual Environment

    Heidi C. Fischer;Kathy Stubblefield;Tiffany Kline;Xun Luo

  • Weakness is the primary contributor to finger impairment in chronic stroke.

    Derek G. Kamper;Derek G. Kamper;Heidi C. Fischer;Erik G. Cruz;William Z. Rymer;William Z. Rymer;William Z. Rymer

  • Relative contributions of neural mechanisms versus muscle mechanics in promoting finger extension deficits following stroke

    D. G. Kamper;D. G. Kamper;Richard L Harvey;Santhanam Suresh;William Z Rymer

  • Impairment of voluntary control of finger motion following stroke: role of inappropriate muscle coactivation.

    D. G. Kamper;William Z Rymer

  • An Actuated Finger Exoskeleton for Hand Rehabilitation Following Stroke

    T.T. Worsnopp;M.A. Peshkin;J.E. Colgate;D.G. Kamper

  • Stereotypical Fingertip Trajectories during Grasp

    Derek G. Kamper;Erik G. Cruz;Michael P. Siegel

  • A low cost instrumented glove for extended monitoring and functional hand assessment.

    Lisa K. Simone;Nappinnai Sundarrajan;Xun Luo;Yicheng Jia

  • Quantitative features of the stretch response of extrinsic finger muscles in hemiparetic stroke

    Derek G. Kamper;W. Zev Rymer

  • Design and Development of the Cable Actuated Finger Exoskeleton for Hand Rehabilitation Following Stroke

    Christopher L. Jones;Furui Wang;Robert Morrison;Nilanjan Sarkar

  • Subject-Specific Myoelectric Pattern Classification of Functional Hand Movements for Stroke Survivors

    Sang Wook Lee;K. M. Wilson;B. A. Lock;D. G. Kamper

  • Kinetic and kinematic workspaces of the index finger following stroke

    E. G. Cruz;H. C. Waldinger;D. G. Kamper

  • Design considerations for a wearable monitor to measure finger posture

    Lisa K Simone;Derek G Kamper

  • Delays in grip initiation and termination in persons with stroke: effects of arm support and active muscle stretch exercise.

    Na Jin Seo;William Z. Rymer;Derek G. Kamper;Derek G. Kamper

  • The effect of motor imagery on spinal segmental excitability.

    Sheng Li;Derek G Kamper;Jennifer A Stevens;William Zev Rymer

  • Integration of Augmented Reality and Assistive Devices for Post-Stroke Hand Opening Rehabilitation

    Xun Luo;T. Kline;H.C. Fischer;K.A. Stubblefield

  • Training finger individuation with a mechatronic-virtual reality system leads to improved fine motor control post-stroke

    Kelly O Thielbar;Thomas J Lord;Heidi C Fischer;Heidi C Fischer;Emily C Lazzaro

  • Extrinsic flexor muscles generate concurrent flexion of all three finger joints

    Derek G Kamper;Derek G Kamper;T George Hornby;William Z Rymer;William Z Rymer

  • Effect of Muscle Biomechanics on the Quantification of Spasticity

    D. G. Kamper;B. D. Schmit;W. Z. Rymer

Frequent Co-Authors

William Z. Rymer
William Z. Rymer Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
Brian D. Schmit
Brian D. Schmit Marquette University
J.E. Colgate
J.E. Colgate Northwestern University
Masud Husain
Masud Husain University of Oxford
Nicholas G. Hatsopoulos
Nicholas G. Hatsopoulos University of Chicago
Jörn Diedrichsen
Jörn Diedrichsen University of Western Ontario
John W. Krakauer
John W. Krakauer Johns Hopkins University
Dario Farina
Dario Farina Imperial College London

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