Robert Ruff

Department of Neurology, Louis Stokes Cleveland VAMC, USA

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Neurological Disorders > Neuromuscular Diseases (since 15 November 2005)

Links

http://www.research.va.gov/news/research_highlights/ruff-032504.cfm

All recent recommendations

• 6.0
  No cerebrocervical venous congestion in patients with multiple sclerosis.
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  Posttraumatic stress disorder and risk of dementia among US veterans.
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  Headaches After Concussion in US Soldiers Returning From Iraq or Afghanistan.
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  Pallidal versus subthalamic deep-brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease.
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  Mutations in potassium channel Kir2.6 cause susceptibility to thyrotoxic hypokalemic periodic paralysis.
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  Posttraumatic stress disorder mediates the relationship between mild traumatic brain injury and health and psychosocial functioning in veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.
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  Prevalence of chronic pain, posttraumatic stress disorder, and persistent postconcussive symptoms in OIF/OEF veterans: polytrauma clinical triad.
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  Advances in neuroimaging of traumatic brain injury and posttraumatic stress disorder.
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  Understanding recent estimates of PTSD and TBI from operations Iraqi freedom and enduring freedom.
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  Using fast eye movements to study fatigue in multiple sclerosis.
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  Myasthenic syndrome due to defects in rapsyn: Clinical and molecular findings in 39 patients.
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  Dabigatran versus warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation.
  Recommended by Robert Ruff, Brian Olshansky with Rakesh Gopinathannair, Luis Ruilope with José A García Donaire, Wilbert Aronow, Fred Weaver with Sung Ham, Philip Gorelick with Fernando Testai, I Eli Ovsyshcher with Guy Amit, Chim Lang with Anna Maria Choy, Heather Bloom, Harri Jenkins, Wolfgang Schoels, Ashfaq Shuaib, Carlos Kase with Aleksandra Pikula , Megan Leary with Angela Adams, Jeffrey Veluz
  
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  Voltage sensor charge loss accounts for most cases of hypokalemic periodic paralysis.
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  Prevalence of chronic pain after traumatic spinal cord injury: a systematic review.
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  Early microglial inhibition preemptively mitigates chronic pain development after experimental spinal cord injury.
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  Systematic review of accuracy of screening instruments for predicting fall risk among independently living older adults.
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  Development and testing of the Gait Assessment and Intervention Tool (G.A.I.T.): A measure of coordinated gait components.
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  Proteoglycans in the central nervous system: plasticity, regeneration and their stimulation with chondroitinase ABC.
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  Antisense vimentin cDNA combined with chondroitinase ABC reduces glial scar and cystic cavity formation following spinal cord injury in rats.
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  Undesired effects of a combinatorial treatment for spinal cord injury--transplantation of olfactory ensheathing cells and BDNF infusion to the red nucleus.
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  Improving gait in multiple sclerosis using robot-assisted, body weight supported treadmill training.
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  Consequences of phosphate-arginine complexes in voltage-gated ion channels.
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  Electroacupuncture may help motor recovery in chronic stroke survivors: A pilot study.
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  Delayed implantation of intramedullary chitosan channels containing nerve grafts promotes extensive axonal regeneration after spinal cord injury.
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  Intensity dependence of auditory P2 in monozygotic twins discordant for Vietnam combat: Associations with posttraumatic stress disorder.
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  Posttraumatic stress disorder and health functioning in a non-treatment-seeking sample of Iraq war veterans: A prospective analysis.
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  Paradoxical depolarization of BA2+- treated muscle exposed to low extracellular K+: insights into resting potential abnormalities in hypokalemic paralysis.
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  Mild traumatic brain injury in U.S. Soldiers returning from Iraq.
  Recommended by Robert Ruff, Philippe Azouvi
  
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  Microfluidic-based strip assay for testing the effects of various surface-bound inhibitors in spinal cord injury.
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  Cold-induced defects of sodium channel gating in atypical periodic paralysis plus myotonia.
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  Effects of a new radio frequency-controlled neuroprosthesis on gait symmetry and rhythmicity in patients with chronic hemiparesis.
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  Peripheral nerve hyperexcitability due to dominant-negative KCNQ2 mutations.
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  Primary motor cortex tuning to intended movement kinematics in humans with tetraplegia.
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  Behavioural improvements with thalamic stimulation after severe traumatic brain injury.
  Recommended by Robert Ruff, Emery Brown
  
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  A Na+ channel mutation linked to hypokalemic periodic paralysis exposes a proton-selective gating pore.
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  Electrical stimulation and treadmill gait in tetraplegic patients: assessment of its effects on the knee with magnetic resonance imaging.
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  Is DBS-STN appropriate to treat severe Parkinson disease in an elderly population?
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  MRI outcomes in a placebo-controlled trial of natalizumab in relapsing MS.
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  Prospective, blinded, randomized crossover study of gait rehabilitation in stroke patients using the Lokomat gait orthosis.
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  Recanalization after intravenous thrombolysis: does a recanalization time window exist?
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  Longitudinal associations between dual sensory impairment and everyday competence among older adults.
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  FAME 3: a novel form of progressive myoclonus and epilepsy.
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  Brain structural alterations before mild cognitive impairment.
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  Structure of the first transmembrane domain of the neuronal acetylcholine receptor beta2 subunit.
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  Dissent by Michael Blanton
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  The thermodynamics of general anesthesia.
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  Impaired receptor clustering in congenital myasthenic syndrome with novel RAPSN mutations.
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• 6.0
  Combining an autologous peripheral nervous system "bridge" and matrix modification by chondroitinase allows robust, functional regeneration beyond a hemisection lesion of the adult rat spinal cord.
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  Neuronal ensemble control of prosthetic devices by a human with tetraplegia.
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  The intrinsic flexibility of the Kv voltage sensor and its implications for channel gating.
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