2015
Bhanpuri NH, Bertucco M, Young SJ, Lee AA, Sanger TD.Multiday Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Causes Clinically Insignificant Changes in Childhood Dystonia: A Pilot Study. J Child Neurol. 2015 Mar 19. pii: 0883073815575369. [Epub ahead of print]
Bertucco M, Sanger TD. Current and emerging strategies for treatment of childhood dystonia. J Hand Ther. 2015 Apr-Jun;28(2):185-94. doi: 10.1016/j.jht.2014.11.002. Epub 2014 Nov 15.
Lunardini F, Bertucco M, Casellato C, Bhanpuri N, Pedrocchi A, Sanger TD. Speed-Accuracy Trade-Off in a Trajectory-Constrained Self-Feeding Task: A Quantitative Index of Unsuppressed Motor Noise in Children With Dystonia. J Child Neurol. 2015 Apr 20. pii: 0883073815578526. [Epub ahead of print]
Dunning A, Ghoreyshi A, Bertucco M, Sanger TD. The tuning of human motor response to risk in a dynamic environment task.
PLoS One. 2015 Apr 22;10(4):e0125461. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0125461. eCollection 2015
W.J. Sohn, C.M. Niu, and T.D. Sanger, Increased long-latency reflex activity as a sufficient explanation for childhood hypertonic dystonia: a neuromorphic emulation study. Journal of neural engineering 12 (2015) 036010.
Bertucco M, Sanger TD. Current and emerging strategies for treatment of childhood dystonia. J Hand Ther. 2015 Apr-Jun;28(2):185-94. doi: 10.1016/j.jht.2014.11.002. Epub 2014 Nov 15.
Lunardini F, Bertucco M, Casellato C, Bhanpuri N, Pedrocchi A, Sanger TD. Speed-Accuracy Trade-Off in a Trajectory-Constrained Self-Feeding Task: A Quantitative Index of Unsuppressed Motor Noise in Children With Dystonia. J Child Neurol. 2015 Apr 20. pii: 0883073815578526. [Epub ahead of print]
Dunning A, Ghoreyshi A, Bertucco M, Sanger TD. The tuning of human motor response to risk in a dynamic environment task.
PLoS One. 2015 Apr 22;10(4):e0125461. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0125461. eCollection 2015
W.J. Sohn, C.M. Niu, and T.D. Sanger, Increased long-latency reflex activity as a sufficient explanation for childhood hypertonic dystonia: a neuromorphic emulation study. Journal of neural engineering 12 (2015) 036010.
2014
C.M. Niu, S.K. Nandyala, and T.D. Sanger, Emulated muscle spindle and spiking afferents validates VLSI neuromorphic hardware as a testbed for sensorimotor function and disease. Frontiers in computational neuroscience 8 (2014) 141.
Bhanpuri, N., Bertucco, M., Ferman, D., Young, S., Liker, M., Krieger, M., & Sanger, T. (2014). Deep brain stimulation evoked potentials may relate to clinical benefit in childhood dystonia. Brain Stimulation. [link to PDF]
Sanger, T., & Kalaska, J. (2014). Crouching tiger, hidden dimensions. Nature Neuroscience, 17(3), 338–340. [link to PDF]
Bertucco, M., & Dayanidhi, S. (2014). Can the period of postnatal co-development of the rubrospinal and corticospinal systems provide new insights into refinement of limb movement?. Journal Of Neurophysiology, --00442. [link to PDF]
Bhanpuri, N., Bertucco, M., Ferman, D., Young, S., Liker, M., Krieger, M., & Sanger, T. (2014). Deep brain stimulation evoked potentials may relate to clinical benefit in childhood dystonia. Brain Stimulation. [link to PDF]
Sanger, T., & Kalaska, J. (2014). Crouching tiger, hidden dimensions. Nature Neuroscience, 17(3), 338–340. [link to PDF]
Bertucco, M., & Dayanidhi, S. (2014). Can the period of postnatal co-development of the rubrospinal and corticospinal systems provide new insights into refinement of limb movement?. Journal Of Neurophysiology, --00442. [link to PDF]
2013
Olaya, J., Christian, E., Ferman, D., Luc, Q., Krieger, M., Sanger, T., & Liker, M. (2013). Deep brain stimulation in children and young adults with secondary dystonia: the Children's Hospital Los Angeles experience. Neurosurgical Focus, 35(5), 7. [link to PDF]
Bertucco, M., & Sanger, T. (2013). Speed-Accuracy Testing on the Apple iPad\textregistered Provides a Quantitative Test of Upper Extremity Motor Performance in Children with Dystonia. Journal Of Child Neurology, 0883073813494265. [link to PDF]
Young, S., Bertucco, M., & Sanger, T. (2013). Cathodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Children With Dystonia A Sham-Controlled Study. Journal Of Child Neurology, 0883073813492385. [link to PDF]
Chu, V., Sternad, D., & Sanger, T. (2013). Healthy and dystonic children compensate for changes in motor variability. Journal Of Neurophysiology, 109(8), 2169–2178. [link to PDF]
Young, S., Bertucco, M., Sheehan-Stross, R., & Sanger, T. (2013). Cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation in children with dystonia a pilot open-label trial. Journal Of Child Neurology, 28(10), 1238–1244. [link to PDF]
Bertucco, M., Cesari, P., & Latash, M. (2013). Fitts’ Law in early postural adjustments.Neuroscience, 231, 61–69. [link to PDF]
Bertucco, M., & Sanger, T. (2013). Speed-Accuracy Testing on the Apple iPad\textregistered Provides a Quantitative Test of Upper Extremity Motor Performance in Children with Dystonia. Journal Of Child Neurology, 0883073813494265. [link to PDF]
Young, S., Bertucco, M., & Sanger, T. (2013). Cathodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Children With Dystonia A Sham-Controlled Study. Journal Of Child Neurology, 0883073813492385. [link to PDF]
Chu, V., Sternad, D., & Sanger, T. (2013). Healthy and dystonic children compensate for changes in motor variability. Journal Of Neurophysiology, 109(8), 2169–2178. [link to PDF]
Young, S., Bertucco, M., Sheehan-Stross, R., & Sanger, T. (2013). Cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation in children with dystonia a pilot open-label trial. Journal Of Child Neurology, 28(10), 1238–1244. [link to PDF]
Bertucco, M., Cesari, P., & Latash, M. (2013). Fitts’ Law in early postural adjustments.Neuroscience, 231, 61–69. [link to PDF]
2011
Kukke, S., & Sanger, T. (2011). Contributors to excess antagonist activity during movement in children with secondary dystonia due to cerebral palsy. Journal Of Neurophysiology, 105(5), 2100–2107. [link to PDF]
Ben-Pazi, H., Ishihara, A., Kukke, S., & Sanger, T. (2009). Increasing viscosity and inertia using a robotically controlled pen improves handwriting in children. Journal Of Child Neurology. [link to PDF]
Travaglini, L., Brancati, F., Attie-Bitach, T., Audollent, S., Bertini, E., & Kaplan, J. et al. (2009). Expanding CEP290 mutational spectrum in ciliopathies. American Journal Of Medical Genetics Part A, 149(10), 2173–2180. [link to PDF]
Chu, W., & Sanger, T. (2009). Force variability during isometric biceps contraction in children with secondary dystonia due to cerebral palsy. Movement Disorders, 24(9), 1299–1305. [link to PDF]
van Doornik, J., Kukke, S., & Sanger, T. (2009). Hypertonia in childhood secondary dystonia due to cerebral palsy is associated with reflex muscle activation. Movement Disorders, 24(7), 965–971. [link to PDF]
Ben-Pazi, H., Ishihara, A., Kukke, S., & Sanger, T. (2009). Increasing viscosity and inertia using a robotically controlled pen improves handwriting in children. Journal Of Child Neurology. [link to PDF]
Travaglini, L., Brancati, F., Attie-Bitach, T., Audollent, S., Bertini, E., & Kaplan, J. et al. (2009). Expanding CEP290 mutational spectrum in ciliopathies. American Journal Of Medical Genetics Part A, 149(10), 2173–2180. [link to PDF]
Chu, W., & Sanger, T. (2009). Force variability during isometric biceps contraction in children with secondary dystonia due to cerebral palsy. Movement Disorders, 24(9), 1299–1305. [link to PDF]
van Doornik, J., Kukke, S., & Sanger, T. (2009). Hypertonia in childhood secondary dystonia due to cerebral palsy is associated with reflex muscle activation. Movement Disorders, 24(7), 965–971. [link to PDF]
2010
Sanger, T. (2010). Controlling Variability. Journal of Motor Behavior, 401-407. [link to PDF]
Sanger, T. (2010). Neuro-mechanical control using differential stochastic operators, 4494–4497. [link to PDF]
Sanger, T., Chen, D., Fehlings, D., Hallett, M., Lang, A., & Mink, J. et al. (2010). Definition and classification of hyperkinetic movements in childhood. Movement Disorders, 25(11), 1538–1549. strong>[link to PDF]
Bloom, R., Przekop, A., & Sanger, T. (2010). Prolonged electromyogram biofeedback improves upper extremity function in children with cerebral palsy. Journal Of Child Neurology. [link to PDF]
Sanger, T. (2010). Neuro-mechanical control using differential stochastic operators, 4494–4497. [link to PDF]
Sanger, T., Chen, D., Fehlings, D., Hallett, M., Lang, A., & Mink, J. et al. (2010). Definition and classification of hyperkinetic movements in childhood. Movement Disorders, 25(11), 1538–1549. strong>[link to PDF]
Bloom, R., Przekop, A., & Sanger, T. (2010). Prolonged electromyogram biofeedback improves upper extremity function in children with cerebral palsy. Journal Of Child Neurology. [link to PDF]
2008
Sanger, T. (2008). Is Cerebral Palsy a Wastebasket Diagnosis? Journal of Child Neurology,726-728. [link to PDF]
Sanger, T. (2008). Use of surface electromyography (EMG) in the diagnosis of childhood hypertonia: a pilot study. Journal Of Child Neurology, 23(6), 644–648. [link to PDF]
van Doornik, J., Kukke, S., McGill, K., Rose, J., Sherman-Levine, S., & Sanger, T. (2008). Oral baclofen increases maximal voluntary neuromuscular activation of ankle plantar flexors in children with spasticity due to cerebral palsy. Journal Of Child Neurology . [link to PDF]
1. Sanger T. D., 2007, Bayesian filtering of myoelectric signals, J. Neurophys, 97:1839- 1845
2. Sanger T. D., Henderson J., Lerner-Durham J., 2006 Optimizing assisted communication devices for children with motor impairments using a model of information rate and channel capacity, IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering, in press.
3. Sanger T. D., Bastian A., Brunstrom J., Damiano D., Delgado M., Dure, L., Gaebler -Spira D., Hoon A., Mink J. W., Sherman-Levine S., Welty L. J., and the child motor study group, 2006, Prospective open-label clinical trial of trihexyphenidyl in children with secondary dystonia due to cerebral palsy, J. Child Neurology in press.
4. Sanger T. D., Kukke S. N., Sherman-Levine, S., 2006 Botulinum toxin B improves speed of reaching in children with cerebral palsy and arm dystonia: An open-label doseescalation pilot study, J. Child Neurology, in press.
5. Ben-Pazi, H, Kukke S. N., Sanger T. D., 2006, Poor penmanship in children correlates with abnormal rhythmic tapping: A broad functional temporal impairment, J. Child Neurology, in press.
6. Sanger T. D., Kukke S. N., 2006 Abnormalities of tactile sensory function in children with dystonic and diplegic cerebral palsy, J Child Neurol, in press.
7. Malfait N., Sanger T. D., 2006 Does dystonia always include co-contraction? A study of unconstrained reaching in children with primary and secondary dystonia, Exp Brain Res, 176(2):206-216.
8. Sanger T. D., 2006, Arm trajectories in dyskinetic cerebral palsy have increased random variability, J. Child Neurol., 21:551-557.
9. Ishihara A. K., van Doornik J., Sanger T. D., 2006 Failure Modes in Feedback Error Learning, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, (full-length refereed paper) pp.669-676.
10. Ishihara A. K., van Doornik J., Sanger T. D., 2006 Feedback Error Learning with Basis Function Networks, IEEE Int. Symp. Intelligent Control, (full-length refereed paper).
11. Espay A. J., Hung S. W., Sanger T. D., Lang A. E., 2005, A writing device improves writing in primary writing tremor, Neurology, 64(9):1648-1650. (cited by 2)
12. Sanger T. D., Kaiser J., Placek B., 2005, Reaching movements in childhood dystonia contain signal-dependent noise, J. Child Neurol., 20:489-496. (cited by 1)
13. Enns G. M., Barkovich A. J., van Kuilenburg A.B.P., Manning M., Sanger T. D., Witt D.R., van Gennip A. H., 2004, Head imaging abnormalities in dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase deficiency, J. Inherit. Metab. Dis., 27:513-522.
14. Sanger T. D., 2004, Severe resting clonus caused by thyrotoxicosis in a 16-year-old girl with hereditary spastic paraparesis, Movement Disorders,19(6): 712-713.
15. Sanger T. D., 2004, Failure of motor learning for large initial errors, Neural Computation, 16(9):1873-1886. (cited by 2)
16. Sanger T. D., 2003, Childhood-onset generalized dystonia can be modeled by increased gain in the indirect basal ganglia pathway. J. Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatr, 74:1509-1515. (cited by 3)
17. Sanger T. D., Lang A. E., 2003, Case studies in pediatric movement disorders, Movement Disorders, special supplement (CD-ROM).
18. Thelen D. D., Riewald S. A., Asakawa D. S., Sanger T. D., Delp S. L., 2003, Abnormal coupling of knee and hip moments during maximal exertions in persons with cerebral palsy. Muscle Nerve 27(4):486-493. (cited by 3)
19. Sanger T. D., 2002, Decoding neural spike trains: calculating the probability that a spike train and an external signal are related, J. Neurophysiology, 87(3):1659-1663. (cited by 3)
20. Sanger T. D., Pascual-Leone A., Tarsy D. M., Schlaug G., 2002, Nonlinear sensory cortex response to simultaneous tactile stimuli in Writer’s Cramp, Movement Disorders, 17(1):105-111. (cited by 17)
21. Sanger T. D., Tarsy D. M., Pascual-Leone A., 2001, Abnormalities of spatial and temporal sensory discrimination in writer’s cramp, Movement Disorders, 16(1):94-99. (cited by 41)
22. Sanger T. D., Garg R. R., Chen R., 2001, Interactions between two different inhibitory systems in human motor cortex revealed by transcranial magnetic stimulation, J. Physiology, 530(pt 2):307-317. (cited by 85)
23. Sanger T. D., 2000, Human arm movements described by a linear superposition of principal components, J. Neuroscience, 20(3):1066-1072. (cited by 13)
24. Sanger T. D., Merzenich M. M., 2000, Computational model of the role of sensory disorganization in focal task-specific dystonia, J. Neurophysiology, 84(5):2458-2464. (cited by 20)
25. Bara-Jimenez W., Shelton P., Sanger T. D., Hallett M., 2000, Sensory discrimination capabilities in patients with focal hand dystonia, Annals of Neurology, 47(3):377-380. (cited by 38)
26. So G. M., Thiele E. A., Sanger T. D., Schmid R., Riviello J. J. Jr., 1998, Electroencephalogram and clinical focalities in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy, J. Child Neurology, 13(11):541–545.
27. Sanger T. D., 1998, Probability density methods for smooth function-approximation and learning in populations of tuned spiking neurons, Neural Computation, 10:1567-1586. (cited by 6)
28. Sanger T. D., 1996, Probability density estimation for the interpretation of neural population codes, J. Neurophysiology, 76(4):2790–2793. (cited by 42)
29. Sanger T. D., Jain K. D., 1996, MERRF syndrome with overwhelming lactic acidosis, Pediatric Neurology, 14(1):57–61. (cited by 3)
30. Sanger T. D., 1995, Eleven-year-old girl with Plasmodium falciparum malaria and nephrotic syndrome, Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 14(12):1107–1108.
31. Sanger T. D., 1994, Theoretical considerations for the analysis of population coding in motor cortex, Neural Computation, 6(1):12–21. (cited by 46) Reprinted in L. Abbott and T. Sejnowski, ed.s, Neural codes and distributed representations, MIT Press, 1999, pp. 45–53.
32. Sanger T. D., 1994, Optimal unsupervised motor learning for dimensionality reduction of nonlinear control systems, IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, 5(6):965–973.
33. Sanger T. D., 1994, Neural network learning control of robot manipulators using gradually increasing task difficulty, IEEE Trans. Robotics and Automation, 10(3):323–333. (cited by 22)
34. Sanger T. D., 1994, Optimal unsupervised motor learning predicts the internal representation of barn owl head movements, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, J. D. Cowan, G. Tesauro, J. Alspector, ed.s, Morgan Kaufmann, p. 614-621.
35. Sanger T. D., 1994, Two iterative algorithms for computing the singular value decomposition from input/output samples, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, J. D. Cowan, G. Tesauro, J. Alspector, ed.s, Morgan Kaufmann, p. 144-151. (cited by 4)
36. Dornay M., Sanger T. D., 1993, Equilibrium point control of a monkey arm simulator by a fast learning artificial neural network, Biological Cybernetics, 68(6):499–508. (cited by 5)
37. Sanger T. D., 1993, A practice strategy for robot learning control Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, S. J. Hanson, J. D. Cowan, C. L. Giles, ed.s, Morgan Kaufmann, p. 335-341. (cited by 2)
38. Sanger T. D., Sutton R. S., Matheus C. J., 1992, Iterative construction of sparse polynomial approximations Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, J. E. Moody, S. J. Hanson, R. P. Lippmann, ed.s, Morgan Kaufmann, p. 1064-1071. (cited by 5)
39. Sanger T. D., 1991, A tree-structured algorithm for reducing computation in networks with separable basis functions, Neural Computation, 3(1):67–78. (cited by 41)
40. Sanger T. D., 1991, Optimal hidden units for two-layer nonlinear feedforward neural networks, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 5(4):545–561, (cited by 4) Also appears in C. H. Chen, ed., Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition and Their Applications, World Scientific, 1991, pp. 43-59.
41. Sanger T. D., 1991, A tree-structured adaptive network for function approximation in high dimensional spaces, IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, 2(2):285–293. (cited by 40)
42. Sanger T. D., 1991, Basis-function trees as a generalization of local variable selection methods for function approximation Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, R. P. Lippmann, J. E. Moody, d. S. Touretzky, ed.s, Morgan Kaufmann, p. 700-706. (cited by 5)
43. Sanger T. D., 1990, Analysis of the two-dimensional receptive fields learned by the generalized Hebbian algorithm in response to random input, Biological Cybernetics, 63:221– 228. (cited by 11)
44. Sanger T. D., 1989, Optimal unsupervised learning in a single-layer linear feedforward neural network, Neural Networks, 2:459–473. (cited by 345)
45. Sanger T. D., 1988, Stereo disparity computation using Gabor filters, Biological Cybernetics, 59:405–418. (cited by 94)
46. Salama G., Sanger T. D., Cohen L. B., 1981, Optical recordings of action-potential propagation in intact heart, Biological Bulletin, 161(2):316.
Consensus Statements
1. Sanger T. D., Taskforce on childhood motor disorders, 2006, Definition and classification of negative motor signs in childhood, Pediatrics, 118(5):2159-2167.
2. Sanger T. D., Taskforce on childhood motor disorders, 2003, Classification and definition of disorders causing hypertonia in childhood, Pediatrics, 111:e89-e97. (cited by 43)
Review Articles and Book Chapters
1. Sanger T. D., 2006, Hyperkinetic movement disorders in childhood, Continuum, in press
2. Sanger T. D., Mink J. W., 2006, Movement disorders, Pediatric Neurology: Principles and Practice, 4th edition, Swaiman K. F., Ashwal, S., Ferriero D. M. ed.s, Mosby, Philadelphia, 1271-1311.
3. Sanger T. D., 2006, Tic disorders and Tourette syndrome, Continuum, in press
4. Sanger T. D., 2005, Hypertonia in children: how and when to treat, Curr Treat Options Neurol, 7(6):427-439.
5. Sanger T. D., 2004, Toward a definition of childhood dystonia, Curr Opin Pediatrics, 16(6):623-627.
6. Hahn J. S., Sanger T. D., 2004, Neonatal movement disorders, NeoReviews, 5:321-326.
7. Sanger T. D., 2003, Pediatric movement disorders, Curr Opin Neurol, 16(4):529-535. (cited by 4)
8. Sanger T. D., 2003, Neural population codes, Curr Opin Neurobio, 13(2):238-249. (cited by 10)
9. Sanger T. D., 2003, Pathophysiology of pediatric movement disorders, J Child Neurology, 18(supp 1):S9-S24. (cited by 7)
10. Sanger T. D., 1997, A probability interpretation of neural population coding for movement, In Morasso P., Sanguineti V., ed.s, Self-Organization, Computational Maps and Motor Control, Elsevier, North Holland.
11. Sanger T. D., 1990a, A theoretical analysis of population coding in motor cortex, In Antognetti P., Milutinovic V., ed.s, Neural Networks: Concepts, Applications, and Implementations, volume 2, Prentice Hall, New Jersey.
Selected Abstracts and Technical Reports
1. Sanger T. D., 2006 Recursive Bayesian Estimation of Surface EMG, Society for Neuroscience
2. Chu V., Sanger T. D., 2006 Signal dependent noise during isometric force contraction in childhood hypertonic dystonia, Society for Neuroscience
3. Van Doornik J., Ishihara A., Sanger T. D., 2006 Uniform Boundedness of Feedback Error Learning for a Class of Stochastic Nonlinear Systems, International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, Singapore
4. Ishihara A., Van Doornik J., Sanger T. D., 2006 Feedback Error Learning with Basis Function Networks IEEE Control Systems Society
5. Ishihara A., Van Doornik J., Sanger T. D., 2006 Estimation of motor learning rate in humans based on a feedback-error learning model, Neural Control of Movement Society
6. Sanger T. D., child motor study group, 2005 Childhood hypertonia of cerebral origin - an open-label trial of anticholinergic treatment effects (CHOCOLATE), American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine
7. Kukke S., Sanger T. D., 2005 Failure of motor learning, Neural Control of Movement Society
8. Malfait N., Sanger T. D., 2005 Is bradykinesia in cerebral palsy due to co-contraction? Neural Control of Movement Society
9. Sanger T. D., 2004 Optimal sensory processing may cause sub-optimal motor performance, Society for Neuroscience
10. Sanger T. D., 2004 When the best strategy is wrong: Optimal allocation of cortex may cause focal dystonia, American Neurological Association
11. Sanger T. D., 2004 Children with arm dystonia and cerebral palsy have a deficit of tactile sensory discrimination, Movement Disorders Society
12. Sanger T. D., 2004 Reaching movements in childhood dystonia: Consistent errors or random noise? Movement Disorders Society
13. Sanger T. D., 2004 Explaining childhood-onset dystonia: Is there a role for the indirect pathway? American Academy of Neurology
14. Kukke S., Sanger T. D., 2004 Humans adapt to exogenous signal-dependent noise Neural Control of Movement Society
15. Sanger T. D., 2002, The speed-accuracy tradeoff in children is related to motor planning rather than movement execution, Society for Neuroscience.
16. Sanger T. D., 2002, Evaluation of childhood hypertonia using the Prochazka rigidity analyzer, Movement Disorders Society.
17. Sanger T. D., Taskforce on childhood motor disorders, 2002, Classification and definition of disorders causing hypertonia in childhood, Proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine.
18. Sanger T. D., Pascual-Leone A., Tarsy D. M., Schlaug G., 2001, Nonlinear sensory cortex response to simultaneous tactile stimuli in Writer’s Cramp, Society for Neuroscience.
19. Sanger T. D., Garg R. R., Chen R., 2001, Interactions between two different inhibitory systems in human motor cortex revealed by transcranial magnetic stimulation, Society for Neuroscience.
20. Sanger T. D., 2000, Decoding neural spike trains: Calculating the probability that a spike rate and a surface potential are related, Society for Neuroscience.
21. Sanger T. D., Tarsy D. M., Pascual-Leone A. P., Schlaug G. M., 2000, fMRI evidence of sensory receptive fields spanning multiple fingers in writer’s cramp, American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting Abstracts Neurology 54(supp 3):A199-A200
Sanger, T. (2008). Use of surface electromyography (EMG) in the diagnosis of childhood hypertonia: a pilot study. Journal Of Child Neurology, 23(6), 644–648. [link to PDF]
van Doornik, J., Kukke, S., McGill, K., Rose, J., Sherman-Levine, S., & Sanger, T. (2008). Oral baclofen increases maximal voluntary neuromuscular activation of ankle plantar flexors in children with spasticity due to cerebral palsy. Journal Of Child Neurology . [link to PDF]
1. Sanger T. D., 2007, Bayesian filtering of myoelectric signals, J. Neurophys, 97:1839- 1845
2. Sanger T. D., Henderson J., Lerner-Durham J., 2006 Optimizing assisted communication devices for children with motor impairments using a model of information rate and channel capacity, IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering, in press.
3. Sanger T. D., Bastian A., Brunstrom J., Damiano D., Delgado M., Dure, L., Gaebler -Spira D., Hoon A., Mink J. W., Sherman-Levine S., Welty L. J., and the child motor study group, 2006, Prospective open-label clinical trial of trihexyphenidyl in children with secondary dystonia due to cerebral palsy, J. Child Neurology in press.
4. Sanger T. D., Kukke S. N., Sherman-Levine, S., 2006 Botulinum toxin B improves speed of reaching in children with cerebral palsy and arm dystonia: An open-label doseescalation pilot study, J. Child Neurology, in press.
5. Ben-Pazi, H, Kukke S. N., Sanger T. D., 2006, Poor penmanship in children correlates with abnormal rhythmic tapping: A broad functional temporal impairment, J. Child Neurology, in press.
6. Sanger T. D., Kukke S. N., 2006 Abnormalities of tactile sensory function in children with dystonic and diplegic cerebral palsy, J Child Neurol, in press.
7. Malfait N., Sanger T. D., 2006 Does dystonia always include co-contraction? A study of unconstrained reaching in children with primary and secondary dystonia, Exp Brain Res, 176(2):206-216.
8. Sanger T. D., 2006, Arm trajectories in dyskinetic cerebral palsy have increased random variability, J. Child Neurol., 21:551-557.
9. Ishihara A. K., van Doornik J., Sanger T. D., 2006 Failure Modes in Feedback Error Learning, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, (full-length refereed paper) pp.669-676.
10. Ishihara A. K., van Doornik J., Sanger T. D., 2006 Feedback Error Learning with Basis Function Networks, IEEE Int. Symp. Intelligent Control, (full-length refereed paper).
11. Espay A. J., Hung S. W., Sanger T. D., Lang A. E., 2005, A writing device improves writing in primary writing tremor, Neurology, 64(9):1648-1650. (cited by 2)
12. Sanger T. D., Kaiser J., Placek B., 2005, Reaching movements in childhood dystonia contain signal-dependent noise, J. Child Neurol., 20:489-496. (cited by 1)
13. Enns G. M., Barkovich A. J., van Kuilenburg A.B.P., Manning M., Sanger T. D., Witt D.R., van Gennip A. H., 2004, Head imaging abnormalities in dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase deficiency, J. Inherit. Metab. Dis., 27:513-522.
14. Sanger T. D., 2004, Severe resting clonus caused by thyrotoxicosis in a 16-year-old girl with hereditary spastic paraparesis, Movement Disorders,19(6): 712-713.
15. Sanger T. D., 2004, Failure of motor learning for large initial errors, Neural Computation, 16(9):1873-1886. (cited by 2)
16. Sanger T. D., 2003, Childhood-onset generalized dystonia can be modeled by increased gain in the indirect basal ganglia pathway. J. Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatr, 74:1509-1515. (cited by 3)
17. Sanger T. D., Lang A. E., 2003, Case studies in pediatric movement disorders, Movement Disorders, special supplement (CD-ROM).
18. Thelen D. D., Riewald S. A., Asakawa D. S., Sanger T. D., Delp S. L., 2003, Abnormal coupling of knee and hip moments during maximal exertions in persons with cerebral palsy. Muscle Nerve 27(4):486-493. (cited by 3)
19. Sanger T. D., 2002, Decoding neural spike trains: calculating the probability that a spike train and an external signal are related, J. Neurophysiology, 87(3):1659-1663. (cited by 3)
20. Sanger T. D., Pascual-Leone A., Tarsy D. M., Schlaug G., 2002, Nonlinear sensory cortex response to simultaneous tactile stimuli in Writer’s Cramp, Movement Disorders, 17(1):105-111. (cited by 17)
21. Sanger T. D., Tarsy D. M., Pascual-Leone A., 2001, Abnormalities of spatial and temporal sensory discrimination in writer’s cramp, Movement Disorders, 16(1):94-99. (cited by 41)
22. Sanger T. D., Garg R. R., Chen R., 2001, Interactions between two different inhibitory systems in human motor cortex revealed by transcranial magnetic stimulation, J. Physiology, 530(pt 2):307-317. (cited by 85)
23. Sanger T. D., 2000, Human arm movements described by a linear superposition of principal components, J. Neuroscience, 20(3):1066-1072. (cited by 13)
24. Sanger T. D., Merzenich M. M., 2000, Computational model of the role of sensory disorganization in focal task-specific dystonia, J. Neurophysiology, 84(5):2458-2464. (cited by 20)
25. Bara-Jimenez W., Shelton P., Sanger T. D., Hallett M., 2000, Sensory discrimination capabilities in patients with focal hand dystonia, Annals of Neurology, 47(3):377-380. (cited by 38)
26. So G. M., Thiele E. A., Sanger T. D., Schmid R., Riviello J. J. Jr., 1998, Electroencephalogram and clinical focalities in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy, J. Child Neurology, 13(11):541–545.
27. Sanger T. D., 1998, Probability density methods for smooth function-approximation and learning in populations of tuned spiking neurons, Neural Computation, 10:1567-1586. (cited by 6)
28. Sanger T. D., 1996, Probability density estimation for the interpretation of neural population codes, J. Neurophysiology, 76(4):2790–2793. (cited by 42)
29. Sanger T. D., Jain K. D., 1996, MERRF syndrome with overwhelming lactic acidosis, Pediatric Neurology, 14(1):57–61. (cited by 3)
30. Sanger T. D., 1995, Eleven-year-old girl with Plasmodium falciparum malaria and nephrotic syndrome, Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 14(12):1107–1108.
31. Sanger T. D., 1994, Theoretical considerations for the analysis of population coding in motor cortex, Neural Computation, 6(1):12–21. (cited by 46) Reprinted in L. Abbott and T. Sejnowski, ed.s, Neural codes and distributed representations, MIT Press, 1999, pp. 45–53.
32. Sanger T. D., 1994, Optimal unsupervised motor learning for dimensionality reduction of nonlinear control systems, IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, 5(6):965–973.
33. Sanger T. D., 1994, Neural network learning control of robot manipulators using gradually increasing task difficulty, IEEE Trans. Robotics and Automation, 10(3):323–333. (cited by 22)
34. Sanger T. D., 1994, Optimal unsupervised motor learning predicts the internal representation of barn owl head movements, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, J. D. Cowan, G. Tesauro, J. Alspector, ed.s, Morgan Kaufmann, p. 614-621.
35. Sanger T. D., 1994, Two iterative algorithms for computing the singular value decomposition from input/output samples, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, J. D. Cowan, G. Tesauro, J. Alspector, ed.s, Morgan Kaufmann, p. 144-151. (cited by 4)
36. Dornay M., Sanger T. D., 1993, Equilibrium point control of a monkey arm simulator by a fast learning artificial neural network, Biological Cybernetics, 68(6):499–508. (cited by 5)
37. Sanger T. D., 1993, A practice strategy for robot learning control Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, S. J. Hanson, J. D. Cowan, C. L. Giles, ed.s, Morgan Kaufmann, p. 335-341. (cited by 2)
38. Sanger T. D., Sutton R. S., Matheus C. J., 1992, Iterative construction of sparse polynomial approximations Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, J. E. Moody, S. J. Hanson, R. P. Lippmann, ed.s, Morgan Kaufmann, p. 1064-1071. (cited by 5)
39. Sanger T. D., 1991, A tree-structured algorithm for reducing computation in networks with separable basis functions, Neural Computation, 3(1):67–78. (cited by 41)
40. Sanger T. D., 1991, Optimal hidden units for two-layer nonlinear feedforward neural networks, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 5(4):545–561, (cited by 4) Also appears in C. H. Chen, ed., Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition and Their Applications, World Scientific, 1991, pp. 43-59.
41. Sanger T. D., 1991, A tree-structured adaptive network for function approximation in high dimensional spaces, IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, 2(2):285–293. (cited by 40)
42. Sanger T. D., 1991, Basis-function trees as a generalization of local variable selection methods for function approximation Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, R. P. Lippmann, J. E. Moody, d. S. Touretzky, ed.s, Morgan Kaufmann, p. 700-706. (cited by 5)
43. Sanger T. D., 1990, Analysis of the two-dimensional receptive fields learned by the generalized Hebbian algorithm in response to random input, Biological Cybernetics, 63:221– 228. (cited by 11)
44. Sanger T. D., 1989, Optimal unsupervised learning in a single-layer linear feedforward neural network, Neural Networks, 2:459–473. (cited by 345)
45. Sanger T. D., 1988, Stereo disparity computation using Gabor filters, Biological Cybernetics, 59:405–418. (cited by 94)
46. Salama G., Sanger T. D., Cohen L. B., 1981, Optical recordings of action-potential propagation in intact heart, Biological Bulletin, 161(2):316.
Consensus Statements
1. Sanger T. D., Taskforce on childhood motor disorders, 2006, Definition and classification of negative motor signs in childhood, Pediatrics, 118(5):2159-2167.
2. Sanger T. D., Taskforce on childhood motor disorders, 2003, Classification and definition of disorders causing hypertonia in childhood, Pediatrics, 111:e89-e97. (cited by 43)
Review Articles and Book Chapters
1. Sanger T. D., 2006, Hyperkinetic movement disorders in childhood, Continuum, in press
2. Sanger T. D., Mink J. W., 2006, Movement disorders, Pediatric Neurology: Principles and Practice, 4th edition, Swaiman K. F., Ashwal, S., Ferriero D. M. ed.s, Mosby, Philadelphia, 1271-1311.
3. Sanger T. D., 2006, Tic disorders and Tourette syndrome, Continuum, in press
4. Sanger T. D., 2005, Hypertonia in children: how and when to treat, Curr Treat Options Neurol, 7(6):427-439.
5. Sanger T. D., 2004, Toward a definition of childhood dystonia, Curr Opin Pediatrics, 16(6):623-627.
6. Hahn J. S., Sanger T. D., 2004, Neonatal movement disorders, NeoReviews, 5:321-326.
7. Sanger T. D., 2003, Pediatric movement disorders, Curr Opin Neurol, 16(4):529-535. (cited by 4)
8. Sanger T. D., 2003, Neural population codes, Curr Opin Neurobio, 13(2):238-249. (cited by 10)
9. Sanger T. D., 2003, Pathophysiology of pediatric movement disorders, J Child Neurology, 18(supp 1):S9-S24. (cited by 7)
10. Sanger T. D., 1997, A probability interpretation of neural population coding for movement, In Morasso P., Sanguineti V., ed.s, Self-Organization, Computational Maps and Motor Control, Elsevier, North Holland.
11. Sanger T. D., 1990a, A theoretical analysis of population coding in motor cortex, In Antognetti P., Milutinovic V., ed.s, Neural Networks: Concepts, Applications, and Implementations, volume 2, Prentice Hall, New Jersey.
Selected Abstracts and Technical Reports
1. Sanger T. D., 2006 Recursive Bayesian Estimation of Surface EMG, Society for Neuroscience
2. Chu V., Sanger T. D., 2006 Signal dependent noise during isometric force contraction in childhood hypertonic dystonia, Society for Neuroscience
3. Van Doornik J., Ishihara A., Sanger T. D., 2006 Uniform Boundedness of Feedback Error Learning for a Class of Stochastic Nonlinear Systems, International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, Singapore
4. Ishihara A., Van Doornik J., Sanger T. D., 2006 Feedback Error Learning with Basis Function Networks IEEE Control Systems Society
5. Ishihara A., Van Doornik J., Sanger T. D., 2006 Estimation of motor learning rate in humans based on a feedback-error learning model, Neural Control of Movement Society
6. Sanger T. D., child motor study group, 2005 Childhood hypertonia of cerebral origin - an open-label trial of anticholinergic treatment effects (CHOCOLATE), American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine
7. Kukke S., Sanger T. D., 2005 Failure of motor learning, Neural Control of Movement Society
8. Malfait N., Sanger T. D., 2005 Is bradykinesia in cerebral palsy due to co-contraction? Neural Control of Movement Society
9. Sanger T. D., 2004 Optimal sensory processing may cause sub-optimal motor performance, Society for Neuroscience
10. Sanger T. D., 2004 When the best strategy is wrong: Optimal allocation of cortex may cause focal dystonia, American Neurological Association
11. Sanger T. D., 2004 Children with arm dystonia and cerebral palsy have a deficit of tactile sensory discrimination, Movement Disorders Society
12. Sanger T. D., 2004 Reaching movements in childhood dystonia: Consistent errors or random noise? Movement Disorders Society
13. Sanger T. D., 2004 Explaining childhood-onset dystonia: Is there a role for the indirect pathway? American Academy of Neurology
14. Kukke S., Sanger T. D., 2004 Humans adapt to exogenous signal-dependent noise Neural Control of Movement Society
15. Sanger T. D., 2002, The speed-accuracy tradeoff in children is related to motor planning rather than movement execution, Society for Neuroscience.
16. Sanger T. D., 2002, Evaluation of childhood hypertonia using the Prochazka rigidity analyzer, Movement Disorders Society.
17. Sanger T. D., Taskforce on childhood motor disorders, 2002, Classification and definition of disorders causing hypertonia in childhood, Proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine.
18. Sanger T. D., Pascual-Leone A., Tarsy D. M., Schlaug G., 2001, Nonlinear sensory cortex response to simultaneous tactile stimuli in Writer’s Cramp, Society for Neuroscience.
19. Sanger T. D., Garg R. R., Chen R., 2001, Interactions between two different inhibitory systems in human motor cortex revealed by transcranial magnetic stimulation, Society for Neuroscience.
20. Sanger T. D., 2000, Decoding neural spike trains: Calculating the probability that a spike rate and a surface potential are related, Society for Neuroscience.
21. Sanger T. D., Tarsy D. M., Pascual-Leone A. P., Schlaug G. M., 2000, fMRI evidence of sensory receptive fields spanning multiple fingers in writer’s cramp, American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting Abstracts Neurology 54(supp 3):A199-A200
