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Lauren E. Sergio

Lauren E. Sergio

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Neuroscience

D-Index
33
Citations
4775
World Ranking
9448
National Ranking
547

Overview

Lauren E. Sergio is affiliated with York University in Canada and specializes in research spanning medicine and neuroscience. Their work predominantly focuses on areas such as cognitive neuroscience, epidemiology, neurology, psychiatry and mental health, as well as radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

The scientist's research covers a broad range of topics including traumatic brain injury, functional brain connectivity studies, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, cardiac arrest and resuscitation, cerebral palsy and movement disorders, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, and heart rate variability with autonomic control.

They have published notable papers in several peer-reviewed venues. Recent publications include:

  • "Blast in Context: The Neuropsychological and Neurocognitive Effects of Long-Term Occupational Exposure to Repeated Low-Level Explosives on Canadian Armed Forces' Breaching Instructors and Range Staff" (2020) in Frontiers in Neurology
  • "The Effects of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury on Cognitive-Motor Integration for Skilled Performance" (2020) in Frontiers in Neurology
  • "White Matter Integrity and Its Relationship to Cognitive-Motor Integration in Females with and without Post-Concussion Syndrome" (2020) in Journal of Neurotrauma
  • "Investigation of baseline attention, executive control, and performance variability in female varsity athletes" (2022) in Brain Imaging and Behavior
  • "Differences in structural MRI and diffusion tensor imaging underlie visuomotor performance declines in older adults with an increased risk for Alzheimer's disease" (2023) in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Publication venues where the scientist has frequently contributed include:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Concussion
  • Frontiers in Neurology
  • Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Collaborations have been an integral part of their research output. Frequent co-authors include Diana J. Gorbet, Meaghan S. Adams, Loriann M. Hynes, Alison Macpherson, and Magdalena Wójtowicz.

Best Publications

  • Cortical control of reaching movements

    John F Kalaska;Stephen H Scott;Paul Cisek;Lauren E Sergio

  • Reaching movements with similar hand paths but different arm orientations. II. Activity of individual cells in dorsal premotor cortex and parietal area 5.

    Stephen H. Scott;Lauren E. Sergio;John F. Kalaska

  • Motor cortex neural correlates of output kinematics and kinetics during isometric-force and arm-reaching tasks.

    Lauren E. Sergio;Catherine Hamel-Pâquet;John F. Kalaska

  • Language rhythms in baby hand movements

    Laura Ann Petitto;Laura Ann Petitto;Siobhan Holowka;Lauren E. Sergio;David Ostry;David Ostry

  • Changes in the temporal pattern of primary motor cortex activity in a directional isometric force versus limb movement task.

    Lauren E. Sergio;John F. Kalaska

  • Baby hands that move to the rhythm of language: hearing babies acquiring sign languages babble silently on the hands

    Laura Ann Petitto;Siobhan Holowka;Lauren E Sergio;Bronna Levy

  • Specificity of Human Parietal Saccade and Reach Regions during Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

    M. Vesia;S. L. Prime;X. Yan;L. E. Sergio

  • Systematic Changes in Motor Cortex Cell Activity With Arm Posture During Directional Isometric Force Generation

    Lauren E. Sergio;John F. Kalaska

  • Optic ataxia and the function of the dorsal stream: contributions to perception and action.

    Laure Pisella;Lauren Sergio;Annabelle Blangero;Héloïse Torchin

  • Systematic changes in directional tuning of motor cortex cell activity with hand location in the workspace during generation of static isometric forces in constant spatial directions.

    Lauren E. Sergio;John F. Kalaska

  • Visuomotor integration is impaired in early stage Alzheimer's disease.

    William J. Tippett;Lauren E. Sergio

  • Extensive video-game experience alters cortical networks for complex visuomotor transformations.

    Joshua A. Granek;Diana J. Gorbet;Lauren E. Sergio

  • Hand and joint paths during reaching movements with and without vision.

    Lauren E. Sergio;Stephen H. Scott

  • Visuomotor Impairments in Older Adults at Increased Alzheimer's Disease Risk

    Kara M. Hawkins;Lauren E. Sergio

  • Cortical Control of Whole-Arm Motor Tasks

    John F. Kalaska;Lauren E. Sergio;Paul Cisek

  • Parietal area 5 activity does not reflect the differential time-course of motor output kinetics during arm-reaching and isometric-force tasks.

    Catherine Hamel-Pâquet;Lauren E. Sergio;John F. Kalaska

  • Visuomotor integration is compromised in Alzheimer's disease patients reaching for remembered targets.

    William J Tippett;Adam Krajewski;Lauren E Sergio

  • Preliminary sex differences in human cortical BOLD fMRI activity during the preparation of increasingly complex visually guided movements

    Diana J. Gorbet;Lauren E. Sergio

  • Brain mechanisms for preparing increasingly complex sensory to motor transformations.

    Diana J. Gorbet;W. Richard Staines;Lauren E. Sergio

  • Mild Cognitive Impairment Is Associated with Impaired Visual-Motor Planning When Visual Stimuli and Actions Are Incongruent

    Yashar Salek;Nicole D. Anderson;Lauren Sergio

  • Specificity of human parietal saccade and reach regions during transcranial magnetic stimulation

    Michael Vesia;Steven L Prime;Xiaogang Yan;Lauren E Sergio

Frequent Co-Authors

John F. Kalaska
John F. Kalaska University of Montreal
David J. Ostry
David J. Ostry McGill University
Yves Rossetti
Yves Rossetti Lyon Neuroscience Research Center
Laure Pisella
Laure Pisella Inserm : Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale
J. Douglas Crawford
J. Douglas Crawford York University
Sandra E. Black
Sandra E. Black University of Toronto
Denise Y. P. Henriques
Denise Y. P. Henriques York University
Stephen Scott
Stephen Scott Queen's University
Paul Cisek
Paul Cisek University of Montreal
Mitsuo Kawato
Mitsuo Kawato Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International

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