Table 3.
Dystonia Coalition career development award program recipients.
| Recipient | Institution | Year | Project title |
|---|---|---|---|
| M. Carbon-Corell, Ph.D. | Feinstein Inst, Manhasset, NY, USA | 2009 | Sensorimotor network activity as a functional imaging marker for dystonia |
| M. Zurowski, MD | Univ Toronto, Canada | 2010 | Development of a psychiatric screening tool for cervical dystonia |
| A. Espay, MD | Univ Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA | 2010 | Sensory and emotional processing in psychogenic dystonia: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study |
| M. Karimi, MD | Washington Univ, St. Louis, MO, USA | 2011 | Basal ganglia induced plasticity in primary cervical dystonia |
| T. Kimberley, PT, Ph.D. | Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA | 2011 | Determining the efficacy of synergistic intervention in focal hand dystonia with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation and sensorimotor retraining |
| B. Berman MD | Univ Colorado, Denver, CO, USA | 2012 | Functional connectivity of the basal ganglia in primary focal dystonia: a pilot study |
| A. Wagle-Shukla, MD | Univ FL, Gainesville, FL, USA | 2012 | Subthalamic nucleus DBS in primary cervical dystonia: a pathophysiological insight |
| M. Bologna, MD | Univ Rome, Italy | 2013 | Effects of cerebellar theta-burst stimulation on arm and neck movement kinematics in patients with primary dystonia |
| S. Pirio-Richardson, MD | Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA | 2013 | Identification of optimal stimulation site for cervical dystonia symptoms: an exploratory study |
| D. Peterson, Ph.D. | Univ California, San Diego, CA, USA | 2013 | The contribution of blinks and spasms to blepharospasm severity |
| D. Arkadir, MD | Hadassah Univ, Israel | 2014 | Reinforcement learning in DYT1 dystonia |
| A. Shaikh, MD | Case Western, Cleveland, VA, USA | 2016 | Physiology of head tremor in cervical dystonia |
| K. Udupa, MD | Univ Toronto, Canada | 2016 | Phase-amplitude coupling of local field potentials in internal globus pallidus in dystonia |
| M. Hammer, MD | Univ Wisc, Madison, WI, USA | 2017 | Laryngeal somatosensory evoked cortical potentials in spasmodic dysphonia-an initial study to elucidate abnormal sensory mechanisms in laryngeal dystonia |
| N. Bukhari-Parlakturk, MD, Ph.D. | Duke Univ, Durham, NC, USA | 2020 | Non-invasive neuromodulation to study long-term plasticity mechanisms in task-specific dystonia |
| L. Rocchi, MD | Univ Rome, Italy | 2020 | Repetitive somatosensory stimulation in focal hand dystonia: a study on inhibitory circuitry plasticity of the somatosensory system and primary motor cortex |