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58
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4176
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242

Overview

John D. Steeves is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada and has a focused research portfolio primarily within the field of Medicine. Their work spans several subfields, notably Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Surgery, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Rehabilitation.

The scientist's research is concentrated on topics such as Spinal Cord Injury Research, Nerve Injury and Rehabilitation, Spinal Dysraphism and Malformations, Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders, Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery, Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials, and Meta-analysis and systematic reviews.

Frequent publication venues where John D. Steeves has contributed include:

  • Neurorehabilitation and neural repair
  • Spinal Cord
  • BMC Medical Research Methodology
  • Topics in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation
  • The Journal Of Hand Surgery

Recent publications authored or co-authored by John D. Steeves include:

  • Adaptive trial designs for spinal cord injury clinical trials directed to the central nervous system, 2020, Spinal Cord
  • Experimental Treatments for Spinal Cord Injury: What you Should Know, 2021, Topics in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation
  • Evaluation of Functional Independence in Cervical Spinal Cord Injury: Implications for Surgery to Restore Upper Limb Function, 2021, The Journal Of Hand Surgery
  • Spontaneous Motor Recovery after Cervical Spinal Cord Injury: Issues for Nerve Transfer Surgery Decision Making, 2022, Spinal Cord
  • Baseline-adjusted proportional odds models for the quantification of treatment effects in trials with ordinal sum score outcomes, 2020, BMC Medical Research Methodology

Throughout their career, John D. Steeves has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Armin Curt
  • Christine B. Novak
  • Catherine Curtin
  • Carie R. Kennedy
  • Katherine C. Stenson

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the conduct of clinical trials for spinal cord injury as developed by the ICCP panel: spontaneous recovery after spinal cord injury and statistical power needed for therapeutic clinical trials

    J W Fawcett;A Curt;J D Steeves;W P Coleman

  • Minocycline Treatment Reduces Delayed Oligodendrocyte Death, Attenuates Axonal Dieback, and Improves Functional Outcome after Spinal Cord Injury

    David P. Stirling;Kourosh Khodarahmi;Jie Liu;Lowell T. McPhail

  • Guidelines for the conduct of clinical trials for spinal cord injury (SCI) as developed by the ICCP panel: clinical trial outcome measures

    J. D. Steeves;D. Lammertse;A. Curt;J. W. Fawcett

  • Modulating astrogliosis after neurotrauma

    J. McGraw;G.W. Hiebert;J.D. Steeves

  • Orthostatic hypotension following spinal cord injury: understanding clinical pathophysiology

    V E Claydon;J D Steeves;A Krassioukov

  • Minocycline as a Neuroprotective Agent

    David P. Stirling;Kaveh M. Koochesfahani;John D. Steeves;Wolfram Tetzlaff

  • Suppression of Rho-kinase activity promotes axonal growth on inhibitory CNS substrates.

    Jaimie F Borisoff;Carmen C.M Chan;Gordon W Hiebert;Loren Oschipok

  • Triggering of locust jump by multimodal inhibitory interneurons.

    K. G. Pearson;W. J. Heitler;J. D. Steeves

  • Outcome measures in spinal cord injury: recent assessments and recommendations for future directions.

    Melannie S. Alexander;K. D. Anderson;F. Biering-Sorensen;A. R. Blight

  • Localization of a descending pathway in the spinal cord which is necessary for controlled treadmill locomotion

    John D. Steeves;Larry M. Jordan

  • Guidelines for the conduct of clinical trials for spinal cord injury as developed by the ICCP Panel: clinical trial inclusion/exclusion criteria and ethics.

    M H Tuszynski;M H Tuszynski;J D Steeves;J W Fawcett;D Lammertse;D Lammertse

  • Guidelines for the conduct of clinical trials for spinal cord injury as developed by the ICCP panel: clinical trial design.

    D Lammertse;D Lammertse;M H Tuszynski;M H Tuszynski;J D Steeves;A Curt

  • Autoradiographic demonstration of the projections from the mesencephalic locomotor region

    John D. Steeves;Larry M. Jordan

  • Axonal regeneration contributes to repair of injured brainstem-spinal neurons in embryonic chick

    SJ Hasan;HS Keirstead;GD Muir;JD Steeves

  • Dose-dependent beneficial and detrimental effects of ROCK inhibitor Y27632 on axonal sprouting and functional recovery after rat spinal cord injury.

    Carmen C.M. Chan;Kourosh Khodarahmi;Jie Liu;Darren Sutherland

  • Setting the stage for functional repair of spinal cord injuries: a cast of thousands

    L M Ramer;M S Ramer;J D Steeves

  • Modulation of stretch reflexes during locomotion in the mesencephalic cat

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  • Suppression of the onset of myelination extends the permissive period for the functional repair of embryonic spinal cord.

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  • Sensorimotor stimulation to improve locomotor recovery after spinal cord injury

    Gillian D Muir;John D Steeves

  • Axotomy abolishes NeuN expression in facial but not rubrospinal neurons

    Lowell T. McPhail;Christopher B. McBride;John McGraw;John D. Steeves

  • International standards for neurological classification of spinal cord injury: cases with classification challenges.

    S. C. Kirshblum;F. Biering-Sørensen;R. Betz;S. Burns

  • Axonal Regeneration and Physiological Activity Following Transection and Immunological Disruption of Myelin within the Hatchling Chick Spinal Cord

    HS Keirstead;JK Dyer;GN Sholomenko;J McGraw

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolfram Tetzlaff
Wolfram Tetzlaff University of British Columbia
James W. Fawcett
James W. Fawcett University of Cambridge
Mark H. Tuszynski
Mark H. Tuszynski University of California, San Diego
Matt S. Ramer
Matt S. Ramer University of British Columbia
Andrei V. Krassioukov
Andrei V. Krassioukov University of British Columbia
Gregory D. Funk
Gregory D. Funk University of Alberta
Bruce H. Dobkin
Bruce H. Dobkin University of California, Los Angeles
Amy E. Latimer-Cheung
Amy E. Latimer-Cheung Queen's University
Brett Smith
Brett Smith Durham University
Kathleen A. Martin Ginis
Kathleen A. Martin Ginis University of British Columbia

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