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Paul D. Cheney is affiliated with the University of Kansas in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, including Neuroscience, Engineering, and Medicine. Within these broader areas, their work touches on several subfields such as Neurology, Biomedical Engineering, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Political Science and International Relations, and History.

The scientist's research topics cover a wide range of interests. These include Vestibular and auditory disorders, Muscle activation and electromyography studies, Spinal Cord Injury Research, Political Theory and Influence, and European Political History Analysis.

Paul D. Cheney has contributed to academic literature with publications in venues including Neuroscience Letters. One recent paper published in 2021 is titled "Monkey flexor and abductor pollicis brevis motoneuron pools: Proximal dendritic trees and small motoneurons," featured in Neuroscience Letters.

  • Monkey flexor and abductor pollicis brevis motoneuron pools: Proximal dendritic trees and small motoneurons (2021, Neuroscience Letters)

Their frequent co-author is Arthur B. Jenny, with whom they have collaborated at least once.

Best Publications

  • Postspike facilitation of forelimb muscle activity by primate corticomotoneuronal cells.

    E. E. Fetz;P. D. Cheney

  • Functional classes of primate corticomotoneuronal cells and their relation to active force

    P. D. Cheney;E. E. Fetz

  • Corticomotoneuronal Postspike Effects in Shoulder, Elbow, Wrist, Digit, and Intrinsic Hand Muscles During a Reach and Prehension Task

    Brian J. McKiernan;Joanne K. Marcario;Jennifer Hill Karrer;Paul D. Cheney

  • Comparable patterns of muscle facilitation evoked by individual corticomotoneuronal (CM) cells and by single intracortical microstimuli in primates: evidence for functional groups of CM cells

    P. D. Cheney;E. E. Fetz

  • Corticomotoneuronal cells contribute to long‐latency stretch reflexes in the rhesus monkey.

    P D Cheney;E E Fetz

  • Patterns of facilitation and suppression of antagonist forelimb muscles from motor cortex sites in the awake monkey.

    P. D. Cheney;E. E. Fetz;S. S. Palmer

  • Consistent Features in the Forelimb Representation of Primary Motor Cortex in Rhesus Macaques

    Michael C. Park;Abderraouf Belhaj-Saı̈f;Michael Gordon;Paul D. Cheney

  • Neural mechanisms underlying corticospinal and rubrospinal control of limb movements.

    Paul D. Cheney;Eberhard E. Fetz;Klaus Mewes

  • Control of forelimb muscle activity by populations of corticomotoneuronal and rubromotoneuronal cells.

    E E Fetz;P D Cheney;K Mewes;S Palmer

  • Exosome-mediated shuttling of microRNA-29 regulates HIV Tat and morphine-mediated Neuronal dysfunction

    G Hu;H Yao;A D Chaudhuri;M Duan

  • Responses of cortical neurons (areas 3a and 4) to ramp stretch of hindlimb muscles in the baboon.

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  • Characteristics of corticomotoneuronal postspike facilitation and reciprocal suppression of EMG activity in the monkey.

    Richard Kasser;P. D. Cheney

  • Plasticity in the distribution of the red nucleus output to forearm muscles after unilateral lesions of the pyramidal tract.

    Abderraouf Belhaj-Saïf;Paul D. Cheney

  • Corticomotoneuronal connections of precentral cells detected by post-spike averages of EMG activity in behaving monkeys

    E. E. Fetz;P. D. Cheney;D. C. German

  • Properties of primary motor cortex output to forelimb muscles in rhesus macaques

    Michael C. Park;Abderraouf Belhaj-Saïf;Paul D. Cheney

  • Encoding of motor parameters by corticomotoneuronal (CM) and rubromotoneuronal (RM) cells producing postspike facilitation of forelimb muscles in the behaving monkey

    Paul D. Cheney;Klaus Mewes;Eberhard E. Fetz

  • Perspectives on classical controversies about the motor cortex.

    Mohsen Omrani;Matthew T. Kaufman;Nicholas G. Hatsopoulos;Paul D. Cheney

  • Distribution and Characteristics of Poststimulus Effects in Proximal and Distal Forelimb Muscles From Red Nucleus in the Monkey

    Abderraouf Belhaj-Saïf;Jennifer Hill Karrer;Paul D. Cheney

  • Effects on muscle activity from microstimuli applied to somatosensory and motor cortex during voluntary movement in the monkey.

    Gail L. Widener;Paul D. Cheney

  • Functional relations between primate motor cortex cells and muscles: fixed and flexible.

    Fetz Ee;Cheney Pd

  • Output Properties and Organization of the Forelimb Representation of Motor Areas on the Lateral Aspect of the Hemisphere in Rhesus Macaques

    Marie-Hélène Boudrias;Rebecca L. McPherson;Shawn B. Frost;Paul D. Cheney

Frequent Co-Authors

Nancy E.J. Berman
Nancy E.J. Berman University of Kansas
Eberhard E. Fetz
Eberhard E. Fetz University of Washington
Janet Marquis
Janet Marquis University of Kansas
Miguel A. L. Nicolelis
Miguel A. L. Nicolelis Duke University
Mikhail A. Lebedev
Mikhail A. Lebedev Moscow State University
Sabita Roy
Sabita Roy University of Miami
Robert J. Morecraft
Robert J. Morecraft University of South Dakota
Howard S. Fox
Howard S. Fox University of Nebraska Medical Center
Steven F. Warren
Steven F. Warren University of Kansas
Katrin Amunts
Katrin Amunts Forschungszentrum Jülich

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