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Steven A. Kautz is affiliated with the Medical University of South Carolina in the United States. Their research expertise spans medicine and neuroscience, with significant contributions to neurology, rehabilitation, cognitive neuroscience, biomedical engineering, and epidemiology. Their work primarily focuses on stroke rehabilitation and recovery, transcranial magnetic stimulation studies, muscle activation and electromyography studies, acute ischemic stroke management, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, vagus nerve stimulation research, and balance, gait, and falls prevention.

The scientist has coauthored frequently with several colleagues, including Steven C. Cramer, Wuwei Feng, Michael R. Borich, Lara A. Boyd, and Adriana Bastos Conforto.

Steven A. Kautz has published extensively across various venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Brain stimulation
  • Stroke
  • Neurorehabilitation and neural repair
  • Physical Therapy

Their recent papers reflect a focus on clinical and neuroimaging approaches in stroke and related neurological conditions:

  • "Vagus nerve stimulation paired with rehabilitation for upper limb motor function after ischaemic stroke (VNS-REHAB): a randomised, blinded, pivotal, device trial," 2021, The Lancet
  • "Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndromes: Complex phenotypes, challenging diagnoses, and poorly understood causes," 2020, Developmental Dynamics
  • "A large, curated, open-source stroke neuroimaging dataset to improve lesion segmentation algorithms," 2022, Scientific Data
  • "The ENIGMA Stroke Recovery Working Group: Big data neuroimaging to study brain-behavior relationships after stroke," 2020, Human Brain Mapping
  • "A pilot randomized controlled trial of supervised, at-home, self-administered transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) to manage long COVID symptoms," 2022, Bioelectronic Medicine

Best Publications

  • Contributions of the individual ankle plantar flexors to support, forward progression and swing initiation during walking.

    Richard R Neptune;S. A. Kautz;S. A. Kautz;F. E. Zajac;F. E. Zajac

  • Merging of Healthy Motor Modules Predicts Reduced Locomotor Performance and Muscle Coordination Complexity Post-Stroke

    David J. Clark;Lena H. Ting;Felix E. Zajac;Richard R. Neptune

  • Biomechanics and muscle coordination of human walking. Part I: introduction to concepts, power transfer, dynamics and simulations.

    Felix E. Zajac;Felix E. Zajac;Richard R. Neptune;Richard R. Neptune;Steven A. Kautz;Steven A. Kautz

  • Biomechanics and muscle coordination of human walking: part II: lessons from dynamical simulations and clinical implications.

    Felix E. Zajac;Richard R. Neptune;Richard R. Neptune;Steven A. Kautz;Steven A. Kautz

  • Muscle force redistributes segmental power for body progression during walking

    Richard R Neptune;Richard R Neptune;F. E. Zajac;F. E. Zajac;S. A. Kautz

  • Vagus nerve stimulation paired with rehabilitation for upper limb motor function after ischaemic stroke (VNS-REHAB): a randomised, blinded, pivotal, device trial.

    Jesse Dawson;Charles Y Liu;Gerard E Francisco;Steven C Cramer

  • Validation of a speed-based classification system using quantitative measures of walking performance poststroke.

    Mark G. Bowden;Chitralakshmi K. Balasubramanian;Andrea L. Behrman;Steven A. Kautz

  • Corticospinal tract lesion load: An imaging biomarker for stroke motor outcomes.

    Wuwei Feng;Jasmine Wang;Pratik Y Chhatbar;Christopher Doughty

  • THE EFFECT OF PEDALING RATE ON COORDINATION IN CYCLING

    Richard R Neptune;S. A. Kautz;M. L. Hull

  • Variability in spatiotemporal step characteristics and its relationship to walking performance post-stroke

    Chitralakshmi K. Balasubramanian;Richard R. Neptune;Steven A. Kautz;Steven A. Kautz

  • Muscle contributions to support during gait in an individual with post-stroke hemiparesis

    J. S. Higginson;F. E. Zajac;F. E. Zajac;Richard R Neptune;S. A. Kautz

  • Relationships between muscle activity and anteroposterior ground reaction forces in hemiparetic walking.

    Lindsey J. Turns;Richard R. Neptune;Steven A. Kautz;Steven A. Kautz

  • The influence of locomotor rehabilitation on module quality and post-stroke hemiparetic walking performance.

    Rebecca L. Routson;David J. Clark;David J. Clark;Mark G. Bowden;Mark G. Bowden;Steven A. Kautz;Steven A. Kautz

  • Relationships between timing of muscle excitation and impaired motor performance during cyclical lower extremity movement in post-stroke hemiplegia.

    S A Kautz;D A Brown

  • Increased Workload Enhances Force Output During Pedaling Exercise in Persons With Poststroke Hemiplegia

    D. A. Brown;S. A. Kautz

  • A large, curated, open-source stroke neuroimaging dataset to improve lesion segmentation algorithms

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  • Stem Cells as an Emerging Paradigm in Stroke 3 Enhancing the Development of Clinical Trials

    Sean I Savitz;Steven C Cramer;Lawrence Wechsler

  • Paretic propulsion as a measure of walking performance and functional motor recovery post-stroke: A review.

    Sarah A. Roelker;Mark G. Bowden;Steven A. Kautz;Richard R. Neptune

  • Evaluation of abnormal synergy patterns poststroke: relationship of the Fugl-Meyer Assessment to hemiparetic locomotion.

    Mark G. Bowden;David J. Clark;Steven A. Kautz

  • Pre-swing deficits in forward propulsion, swing initiation and power generation by individual muscles during hemiparetic walking

    Carrie L. Peterson;Allison L. Hall;Steven A. Kautz;Steven A. Kautz;Richard R. Neptune

  • Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Post-Stroke Upper Extremity Motor Recovery Studies Exhibit a Dose-Response Relationship.

    Pratik Y. Chhatbar;Viswanathan Ramakrishnan;Steven Kautz;Steven Kautz;Mark S. George;Mark S. George

  • Sensorimotor state of the contralateral leg affects ipsilateral muscle coordination of pedaling.

    Lena H. Ting;Christine C. Raasch;David A. Brown;Steven A. Kautz

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark S. George
Mark S. George Medical University of South Carolina
Lars T. Westlye
Lars T. Westlye University of Oslo
Bradley J. MacIntosh
Bradley J. MacIntosh Sunnybrook Health Science Centre
George F. Wittenberg
George F. Wittenberg University of Pittsburgh
Colleen A. Hanlon
Colleen A. Hanlon Wake Forest University
Amy Brodtmann
Amy Brodtmann Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Carolee J. Winstein
Carolee J. Winstein University of Southern California
Neda Jahanshad
Neda Jahanshad University of Southern California
Surjo R. Soekadar
Surjo R. Soekadar Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Cathy M. Stinear
Cathy M. Stinear University of Auckland

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