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2023

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Citations
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  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Volker Dietz is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on the neural mechanisms underlying motor control and adaptation, with intersections in neuroscience, medicine, and engineering. Dietz's work spans several subfields including cognitive neuroscience, biomedical engineering, neurology, rehabilitation, and pathology and forensic medicine.

The major topics addressed in their research cover motor control and adaptation, muscle activation and electromyography studies, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, stroke rehabilitation and recovery, spinal cord injury research, botulinum toxin and related neurological disorders, and cerebral palsy and movement disorders.

Dietz has contributed papers to several scientific journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • Neural coordination of bilateral hand movements: evidence for an involvement of brainstem motor centres, 2024, The Journal of Physiology
  • Neural coordination of bilateral power and precision finger movements, 2020, European Journal of Neuroscience
  • Restoration of motor function after CNS damage: is there a potential beyond spontaneous recovery?, 2021, Brain Communications
  • Coordination of bilateral synchronous and asynchronous hand movements, 2020, Neuroscience Letters
  • Differential neural coordination of bilateral hand and finger movements, 2020, Physiological Reports

Frequent co-authors in Dietz's work include Linard Filli, Sabrina Köchli, Thiemo Scharfenberger, Nicole Sarah Holliger, and Andrin Christen, reflecting collaborations across various aspects of neural coordination and motor function research.

The publications of Dietz have appeared in venues such as The Journal of Physiology, European Journal of Neuroscience, Neuroscience Letters, Physiological Reports, and Brain Communications. These journals align with the interdisciplinary nature of their research encompassing both clinical and basic science perspectives.

Best Publications

  • Human neuronal control of automatic functional movements: interaction between central programs and afferent input

    V. Dietz

  • Patient-cooperative strategies for robot-aided treadmill training: first experimental results

    R. Riener;L. Lunenburger;S. Jezernik;M. Anderschitz

  • Guidelines for the conduct of clinical trials for spinal cord injury as developed by the ICCP panel: spontaneous recovery after spinal cord injury and statistical power needed for therapeutic clinical trials

    J W Fawcett;A Curt;J D Steeves;W P Coleman

  • Spastic movement disorder: impaired reflex function and altered muscle mechanics

    Volker Dietz;Thomas Sinkjaer

  • Locomotor capacity of spinal cord in paraplegic patients.

    V Dietz;G Colombo;L Jensen;L Baumgartner

  • A reliable gait phase detection system

    I.P.I. Pappas;M.R. Popovic;T. Keller;V. Dietz

  • Effectiveness of automated locomotor training in patients with chronic incomplete spinal cord injury: A multicenter trial

    Markus Wirz;David H. Zemon;Ruediger Rupp;Anke Scheel

  • Spinal cord pattern generators for locomotion

    V. Dietz

  • Three-dimensional, task-specific robot therapy of the arm after stroke: a multicentre, parallel-group randomised trial

    Verena Klamroth-Marganska;Verena Klamroth-Marganska;Javier Blanco;Katrin Campen;Armin Curt

  • Locomotor activity in spinal man: significance of afferent input from joint and load receptors.

    Volker Dietz;Roland Müller;Gery Colombo

  • Electrophysiological studies of gait in spasticity and rigidity. Evidence that altered mechanical properties of muscle contribute to hypertonia.

    V. Dietz;J. Quintern;W. Berger

  • Proprioception and locomotor disorders

    Volker Dietz

  • Do human bipeds use quadrupedal coordination

    Volker Dietz

  • Assessing walking ability in subjects with spinal cord injury: Validity and reliability of 3 walking tests

    Hubertus J. van Hedel;Hubertus J. van Hedel;Markus Wirz;Volker Dietz

  • Locomotor activity in spinal man

    V Dietz;G Colombo;L Jensen

  • Driven gait orthosis for improvement of locomotor training in paraplegic patients.

    G Colombo;M Wirz;V Dietz

  • Neuronal mechanisms of human locomotion

    V. Dietz;D. Schmidtbleicher;J. Noth

  • Guidelines for the conduct of clinical trials for spinal cord injury (SCI) as developed by the ICCP panel: clinical trial outcome measures

    J. D. Steeves;D. Lammertse;A. Curt;J. W. Fawcett

  • Locomotor activity in spinal cord-injured persons

    V. Dietz;Susan J. Harkema

  • Locomotor capacity of spinal cord in paraplegic patients

    V Dietz

Frequent Co-Authors

Armin Curt
Armin Curt University of Zurich
Wiltrud Berger
Wiltrud Berger University of Freiburg
Martin E. Schwab
Martin E. Schwab University of Zurich
Robert Riener
Robert Riener ETH Zurich
Karim Fouad
Karim Fouad University of Alberta
Manfred Morari
Manfred Morari University of Pennsylvania
Gerlinde A. S. Metz
Gerlinde A. S. Metz University of Lethbridge
Andreas Luft
Andreas Luft University of Zurich
Andrei V. Krassioukov
Andrei V. Krassioukov University of British Columbia

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