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Laurent J. Bouyer

Laurent J. Bouyer

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Neuroscience

D-Index
38
Citations
4682
World Ranking
8631
National Ranking
504

Overview

Laurent J. Bouyer is affiliated with Université Laval in Canada. Their research primarily intersects the fields of Medicine and Engineering, with a significant focus on Biomedical Engineering. Their scholarly output includes contributions to subfields such as Pharmacology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, and Rehabilitation.

The scientist's research topics cover several areas including muscle activation and electromyography studies, musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, cerebral palsy and movement disorders, stroke rehabilitation and recovery, balance, gait, and falls prevention, ergonomics and musculoskeletal disorders, as well as botulinum toxin and related neurological disorders.

Recent scholarly publications highlight various dimensions of rehabilitation and sensor technologies. Some of their recent papers include:

  • Effects of robotic gait training after stroke: A meta-analysis, 2020, Annals of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Reducing Noise, Artifacts and Interference in Single-Channel EMG Signals: A Review, 2023, Sensors
  • The effect of experimental pain on the excitability of the corticospinal tract in humans: A systematic review and meta-analysis, 2021, European Journal of Pain
  • Clinicians' perspectives on inertial measurement units in clinical practice, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Validating Commercial Wearable Sensors for Running Gait Parameters Estimation, 2020, IEEE Sensors Journal

Bouyer frequently publishes in several academic venues, with multiple publications in:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Sensors
  • IEEE Sensors Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Annals of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine

Their collaborative network includes recurrent co-authors such as Jean-Sébastien Roy, Catherine Mercier, Alexandre Campeau-Lecours, François Routhier, and Antoine Frasie, each having contributed to multiple joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Contribution of Cutaneous Inputs From the Hindpaw to the Control of Locomotion. I. Intact Cats

    Laurent J. Bouyer;Serge Rossignol

  • Effects of robotic gait training after stroke: A meta-analysis.

    Geoffroy Moucheboeuf;Romain Griffier;David Gasq;Bertrand Glize

  • Is combining gait retraining or an exercise programme with education better than education alone in treating runners with patellofemoral pain?A randomised clinical trial.

    Jean-Francois Esculier;Laurent Julien Bouyer;Blaise Dubois;Pierre Fremont

  • Pharmacological Activation and Modulation of the Central Pattern Generator for Locomotion in the Cata

    S. Rossignol;C. Chau;E. Brustein;N. Giroux

  • Reducing Noise, Artifacts and Interference in Single-Channel EMG Signals: A Review

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  • Involvement of the corticospinal tract in the control of human gait

    Dorothy Barthélemy;Michael James Grey;Jens Bo Nielsen;Laurent Bouyer

  • Recovery of locomotion in the cat following spinal cord lesions.

    S Rossignol;L Bouyer;D Barthélemy;C Langlet

  • Alterations in central motor representation increase over time in individuals with rotator cuff tendinopathy.

    Suzy Ngomo;Catherine Mercier;Laurent J. Bouyer;Alexandre Savoie

  • Lower limb control and strength in runners with and without patellofemoral pain syndrome.

    Jean-Francois Esculier;Jean-Sébastien Roy;Laurent Julien Bouyer

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

    Serge Rossignol;Grégory Barrière;Alain Frigon;Dorothy Barthélemy

  • Adaptive Locomotor Plasticity in Chronic Spinal Cats after Ankle Extensors Neurectomy

    Laurent J. G. Bouyer;Patrick J. Whelan;Keir G. Pearson;Serge Rossignol

  • An ElectroHydraulic Actuated Ankle Foot Orthosis to Generate Force Fields and to Test Proprioceptive Reflexes During Human Walking

    M. Noel;B. Cantin;S. Lambert;C.M. Gosselin

  • Tonic pain experienced during locomotor training impairs retention despite normal performance during acquisition.

    Jason Bouffard;Laurent J. Bouyer;Jean-Sébastien Roy;Catherine Mercier

  • Timing-Specific Transfer of Adapted Muscle Activity After Walking in an Elastic Force Field

    Andreanne Blanchette;Laurent J. Bouyer

  • The effect of experimental pain on the excitability of the corticospinal tract in humans: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Antoine Rohel;Jason Bouffard;Philippe Patricio;Nicolas Mavromatis

  • Validity of Wearable Sensors at the Shoulder Joint: Combining Wireless Electromyography Sensors and Inertial Measurement Units to Perform Physical Workplace Assessments.

    Isabelle Poitras;Mathieu Bielmann;Alexandre Campeau-Lecours;Catherine Mercier

  • Physiology of walking in patients with moderate to severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

    Nicole Marquis;Richard Debigaré;Laurent Bouyer;Didier Saey

  • Psychometric evidence of self-reported questionnaires for patellofemoral pain syndrome: a systematic review

    Jean-Francois Esculier;Jean-Sébastien Roy;Laurent Julien Bouyer

  • Chapter 12 The cat model of spinal injury

    Rossignol S;Chau C;Giroux N;Brustein E

  • A Virtual Reality avatar interaction (VRai) platform to assess residual executive dysfunction in active military personnel with previous mild traumatic brain injury: proof of concept

    Nicolas Robitaille;Philip L. Jackson;Luc J. Hébert;Catherine Mercier

  • Determinants of locomotor recovery after spinal injury in the cat

    Serge Rossignol;Laurent Bouyer;Cécile Langlet;Dorothy Barthélemy

  • The Spinal Cat

    Serge Rossignol;Marc Bélanger;Connie Chau;Nathalie Giroux

Frequent Co-Authors

Serge Rossignol
Serge Rossignol University of Montreal
Philip L. Jackson
Philip L. Jackson Université Laval
Clément Gosselin
Clément Gosselin Université Laval
Tomás A. Reader
Tomás A. Reader University of Montreal
Younes Messaddeq
Younes Messaddeq Université Laval
Alain Frigon
Alain Frigon Université de Sherbrooke
Jean-René Cazalets
Jean-René Cazalets University of Bordeaux
Alexander Thiel
Alexander Thiel McGill University
Trevor Drew
Trevor Drew University of Montreal
Shirley Fecteau
Shirley Fecteau Université Laval

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