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W. Zev Rymer, MD, PhD

Photograph of W. Zev Rymer
  • Vice President, Research
  • John G. Searle Chair in Rehabilitation Research
  • Director, Sensory Motor Performance Program
  • Professor, Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, NU
  • Professor, BME, McCormick School of Engineering, NU

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Research Interests

W. Zev Rymer, MD, PhD is currently researching regulation of movement in normal and neurologically disordered human subjects; physiological effects of spinal cord injury; sources of altered motoneuronal and inter-neuronal responses in spinal segments below a partial or complete spinal cord transaction using electro-physiological; pharmacological and biomechanical techniques; rehabilitation robotics.

Research Studies

Education & Training

Education

University of Melbourne University
M.D.
Monash University
Ph.D.

Recent or Important Publications

Rymer WZ. (2006) Response to "Training and retention of rehabilitation researchers". Am J Phys Med Rehabil. 2005 Dec;84(12):976-9.

Li, S, Kamper, DG & Rymer, WZ (2006) Effects of Changing Wrist Positions on Finger Flexor Hypertonia in Stroke Survivors, Muscle Nerve 33: 183-190.

Suresh NL, Ellis MD, Moore J, Heckman H, Rymer WZ. (2005) Excitatory synaptic potentials in spastic human motoneurons have a short rise-time. Muscle Nerve. 2005 Jul;32(1):99-103.

Xia R, Rymer WZ. (2005) Reflex reciprocal facilitation of antagonist muscles in spinal cord injury. Spinal Cord. 2005 Jan;43(1):14-21.

Mirbagheri, MM, Tsao, C, Pelosin, E & Rymer, WZ (2005) Therapeutic Effects of Robotic-Assisted Locomotor Training on Neuromuscular Properties, Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE 9th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, Chicago, IL, USA.

Mayhew, D, Bachrach, B, Rymer, WZ & Beer, RF (2005) Development of the MACARM a Novel Cable Robot for Upper Limb Neurorehabilitation, Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE 9th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, Chicago, IL, USA.

Li, S, Stevens, JA, Kamper, DG, & Rymer, WZ (2005) The Movement-Specific Effect of Motor Imagery of the Premotor Time, Motor Control, 2005, 9, 119-128© 2005 Human Kinetics Publishers, Inc.

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