What is she best known for?
The fields of study she is best known for:
- Internal medicine
- Neuroscience
- Central nervous system
Monica A. Gorassini focuses on Neuroscience, Spasticity, Plateau potentials, Anesthesia and Spinal cord injury.
Her Neuroscience study frequently links to other fields, such as Muscle contraction.
Monica A. Gorassini combines subjects such as Reflex and Serotonin with her study of Spasticity.
Monica A. Gorassini works mostly in the field of Reflex, limiting it down to concerns involving Spinal cord and, occasionally, Anatomy.
Her research investigates the connection between Anesthesia and topics such as Excitatory postsynaptic potential that intersect with issues in Physical Stimulation, Spastic, Stimulation and Depolarization.
Her Spinal cord injury research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Follow up studies, Receptor, Physical medicine and rehabilitation and Treadmill training.
Her most cited work include:
- PERSISTENT INWARD CURRENTS IN MOTONEURON DENDRITES: IMPLICATIONS FOR MOTOR OUTPUT (314 citations)
- Recovery of motoneuron and locomotor function after spinal cord injury depends on constitutive activity in 5-HT2C receptors (291 citations)
- Role of Persistent Sodium and Calcium Currents in Motoneuron Firing and Spasticity in Chronic Spinal Rats (249 citations)
What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?
The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Neuroscience, Spinal cord injury, Physical medicine and rehabilitation, Spasticity and Spinal cord.
Sensory system, Motor unit, Plateau potentials, Electromyography and Excitatory postsynaptic potential are the primary areas of interest in her Neuroscience study.
Monica A. Gorassini has researched Spinal cord injury in several fields, including Receptor and Endurance training.
Her work is dedicated to discovering how Physical medicine and rehabilitation, Physical therapy are connected with Randomized controlled trial and other disciplines.
Her research in Spasticity intersects with topics in Spastic, Reflex and Serotonin.
Her study explores the link between Spinal cord and topics such as Hyperreflexia that cross with problems in Hypertonia.
She most often published in these fields:
- Neuroscience (55.81%)
- Spinal cord injury (30.23%)
- Physical medicine and rehabilitation (25.58%)
What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2017-2021)?
- Cerebral palsy (11.63%)
- Spinal cord (22.09%)
- Neuroscience (55.81%)
In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:
Cerebral palsy, Spinal cord, Neuroscience, Physical medicine and rehabilitation and Transcranial magnetic stimulation are her primary areas of study.
Her research on Spinal cord also deals with topics like
- Endocrinology which is related to area like Hyperreflexia, Hypertonia, Spastic and Spasticity,
- Electrophysiology, which have a strong connection to Serotonin and 5-HT receptor.
Her biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Rehabilitation, Powered exoskeleton, Spinal cord injury and Sensation.
While working on this project, Monica A. Gorassini studies both Neuroscience and Sodium current.
Her Physical medicine and rehabilitation research integrates issues from Animal model, Spinal cord pathology and Brain stimulation.
The concepts of her Transcranial magnetic stimulation study are interwoven with issues in Trigeminal nerve, Diffusion MRI, Bilateral spastic cerebral palsy and Pyramidal tracts.
Between 2017 and 2021, her most popular works were:
- Safety and tolerability of transcranial magnetic and direct current stimulation in children: Prospective single center evidence from 3.5 million stimulations. (16 citations)
- Retraining walking over ground in a powered exoskeleton after spinal cord injury: a prospective cohort study to examine functional gains and neuroplasticity (12 citations)
- Animal models of developmental motor disorders: parallels to human motor dysfunction in cerebral palsy. (10 citations)
In her most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
- Internal medicine
- Central nervous system
- Neuroscience
Her scientific interests lie mostly in Physical medicine and rehabilitation, Cerebral palsy, Spinal cord pathology, Animal model and Motor disability.
Her work on Spasticity as part of general Physical medicine and rehabilitation study is frequently connected to Traumatic brain injury, therefore bridging the gap between diverse disciplines of science and establishing a new relationship between them.
Her Spasticity study incorporates themes from Powered exoskeleton, Exoskeleton, Spinal cord injury and Sensation.
Her work in Traumatic brain injury incorporates the disciplines of Transcranial direct-current stimulation, Neurostimulation, Brain stimulation, Epilepsy and Tolerability.
Her research combines Transcranial magnetic stimulation and Transcranial direct-current stimulation.
Monica A. Gorassini combines Spinal cord pathology and Motor dysfunction in her studies.
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