Robert Morecraft

Griffin, Sandon, Khanna, Preeya, Ganguly, Karunesh, Choi, Hoseok, Novik, Lisa, Thiesen, Katherina, and Morecraft, Robert, Reactivations during Brief Rest Periods drive Fast Sequence Learning in Non-Human Primates. Presented at the Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Cosyne) Conference, Lisbon, Portugal. (March 2024)

Lemon, Roger, Stilwell-Morecraft, Kimberly, Ge, Jizhi, Kraskov, Alexander, and Morecraft, Robert, Lack of Somatotopy in the Macaque Lateral Corticospinal Tract: Implications for Understanding of Human Incomplete Spinal Injury. Presented at the The Physiological Society, Neurophysiological Basis of Human Movement, Kings College, London, UK. (December 2023)

Khanna, Preeya, , Heimbuch, Ian, Choi, Hoseok, Novik, Lisa, Thiesen, Kathy, Morecraft, Robert, and Ganguly, Karunesh, Synchronous and Isolated Beta Burst Dynamics following Recovery from Stroke in Primates. Presented at the Society for Neurosciences, Washington, D.C.. (November 2023)

Lemon, Roger N., Stilwell-Morecraft, Kim, Ge, Jizhi, Kraskov, Alexander, and Morecraft, Robert J., Lack of Somatotopy in the Primate Lateral Corticospinal Tract: Implications for our Understanding of Incomplete Spinal Injury. Presented at the 2022 Network Meeting of the International Spinal Research Trust, London, United Kingdom. (September 2022)

Morecraft, Robert, Corticospinal Tract Organization through the Craniovertebral Junction and Cervical Spinal Cord: Pathoanatomical Substrate of Central Cord Syndrome and Cruciate Paralysis.. Presented at the Department of Neurology and Neurophysiology, Spinal Cord Injury Center, Balgrist University Hospital, University of Zurich, Switzerland. (May 2022)

Choi, H, Kim, J, Khanna, P, Novik, L, Thiesen, K, Morecraft, Robert, and Ganguly, K, Bistability of Beta Oscillations and Movement-related Population Spiking in Motor Areas. Presented at the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, California. (January 2022)

Heimbuch, I, Khanna, P, Novik, L, Morecraft, Robert, and Ganguly, K, Changes in Somatosensory and Premotor Cortex Neurophysiology during Recovery of Reach-to-grasp Control following Motor cortex Stroke. Presented at the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, California. (January 2022)

Khanna, P, Heimbuch, I, Choi, H, Novik, L, Thiesen, K, Morecraft, Robert, and Ganguly, K, Cortical-subcortical Beta Band Interactions with Motor Recovery from Stroke. Presented at the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, California. (January 2022)

Choi, H, Khanna, P, Novik, L, Roberts, J, Morecraft, R, and Ganguly, K, Changes in Neural Population Dynamics during Stroke Recovery in Non-human Primates. . Presented at the Society for Neuroscience, Virtual. (January 2021)

Darling, Warren, Pizzimenti , Marc, Rotella, Diane, Ge, Jizhi, Stilwell-Morecraft , Kimberly, and Morecraft, Robert, Forced-use Therapy Influences Recovery of Upper Limb Motor Function after Sensorimotor Cortex Lesions in Macaca mulatta. Presented at the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, Illinois. (October 2019)

Khanna, Preeya, Totten, Doug, Morecraft, Robert, and Ganguly, Karunesh, Perilesional Motor and Somatosensory Cortex Dynamics with Recovery of Dexterous Function after Cortical Strokes in Non-human Primates. Presented at the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, Illinois. (October 2019)

Darling, Warren, Stilwell-Morecraft, Kimberly, Ge, Jizhi, Rotella, Diane, Pizzimenti, Marc, and Morecraft, Robert, Forced-use Therapy after Sensorimotor Cortex Lesions Restores Contralesional Hand Preference in Macaca mulatta. Presented at the Society for Neurosciences 47th Annual Meeting, San Diego, California. (November 2018)

Totten, Doug, Carmena, Jose J., Morecraft, Robert, and Ganguly, Karunesh, Perilesional recordings and epidural stimulation in a non-human primate stroke model.. Presented at the Society for Neurosciences 47th Annual Meeting, San Diego, California. (November 2018)

Totten, Doug, Carmena, Jose M., Morecraft, Robert, and Ganguly, Karunesh, A System for Testing Epidural Stimulation to Enhance Stroke Recovery in Non-Human Primates.. Presented at the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Honolulu, Hawaii. (July 2018)

Darling, Warren, Ge, Jizhi, Stilwell-Morecraft, Kimberly, Rotella, Diane, Pizzimenti, Marc, and Morecraft, Robert, Changes in the supplementary motor cortex projection to gigantocellular reticular nucleus after peri-rolandic injury are correlated with recovery of upper limb function.. Presented at the Society for the Neural Control of Movement, Dublin, Ireland. (May 2017)

Darling, Warren, Rotella, Diane, Pizzimenti, Marc, Ge, Jizhi, Stilwell-Morecraft, Kimberly, and Morecraft, Robert, Changes in supplementary motor cortex projection to medullary precerebellar relay nuclei correlate with upper limb recovery after peri-rolandic injury in monkey.. Presented at the Society for Neuroscience 46th Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. (November 2016)

Morecraft, Robert, Differential Effects of Frontal and Frontoparietal Injury on Spared Corticospinal Projection Systems in the Motor Recovery Process. Presented at the John H. and Amy Bowles Lawrence Foundation Symposium, Research Frontiers in Cerebrovascular Disease and Disorders, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. (October 2015)

Darling, Warren, Hynes, Stephanie, Rotella, Diane, Pizzimenti, Marc, Ge, Jizhi, Stilwell-Morecraft, Kimberly, and Morecraft, Robert, Age and Handedness Effects on Hand Motor Recovery after Sensorimotor Cortex Lesions in Macaca Mulatta.. Presented at the Society for Neuroscience 45th Annual Meeting, Chicago. (October 2015)

Morecraft, Robert, Basic Science Course in Head and Neck Anatomy for Residents. Presented at the Annual Summer Clinical and Basic Science Course in Otolaryngology, Iowa City, Iowa. (July 2015)

Morecraft, Robert, The Cerebral Cortex and Facial Expression: Potential Role in Blepharospasm and related Head and Neck Dystonias. Presented at the South Dakota Regional Blepharospasm and Dystonia Patient Support Group, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. (April 2015)

Soliman, H, Seecharan, D, Zhang, H, Edwards, I, McNeal, DW, Morecraft, Robert, Darling, WG, Ge, J, Stilwell-Morecraft, KS, Nudo, RJ, Nazzaro, J, Arnold, P, and Cheney, P, Recovery of Forelimb Motor Function following Complete Lesions of Rostral Motor Cortex in Macaque Monkeys. Presented at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons 14th Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts. (October 2014)

Morecraft, Robert, Recovery of Ipsilesional Dexterous Movements after Fronto-parietal Lesions in Macaca mulatta. Society for Neuroscience, Washington D.C., 162.14, 2014.. Presented at the Society for Neuroscience 44th Annual Meeting, Washington DC. (October 2014)

Hynes, Stephanie, , Darling, Warren, Pizzimenti, Marc, Ge, Jizhi, Morecraft, Kimberly, and Morecraft, Robert, Pushing Hand Posture Influences Success Rate in Rhesus Monkeys Performing a Bimanual Task.. Presented at the Society for Neuroscience 43rd Annual Meeting, San Diego, California. (November 2013)

Darling, Warren, Pizzimenti, Marc, Rotella, Diane, Ge, Jizhi, Stilwell-Morecraft, Kimberly, and Morecraft, Robert, Learned Nonuse is Similar after Unilateral Lesions to Motor and Sensorimotor Areas of the Brain in Macaca mulatta. Presented at the Society for Neuroscience 43th Annual Meeting, San Diego, California. (October 2013)

Hynes, Stephanie, Darling, Warren, Pizzimenti, Marc, Ge, Jizhi, Morecraft, Kimberly, and Morecraft, Robert, Bimanual Drawer Task may Promote Unimanual Skill Recovery after Unilateral Sensorimotor Cortex Lesions in Rhesus Monkeys. Presented at the Society for Neuroscience 42nd Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana. (October 2012)

Darling, Warren, Pizzimenti, Marc, Rotella, Diane, Ge, Jizhi, Stilwell-Morecraft, Kimberly, and Morecraft, Robert, Recovery of Precision Grip and Manipulation following Lesions of Rostral and Caudal Hand Areas of M1 in in Macaca Mulatta. Presented at the Society for Neuroscience 42nd Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana. (October 2012)

Morecraft, Robert, Neuroanatomical Correlates for Motor Recovery following Brain Injury: Distributed Corticofugal Fiber Representation and Corticospinal Plasticity in the Non-human Primate. Presented at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Landon Center on Aging, Kansas City, Kansas. (February 2012)

Darling, Warren G., Rotella, Diane, Nicol, J, Pizzimenti, Marc A., Ge, Jizhi, Stilwell-Morecraft, Kimberly S., and Morecraft, Robert, Recovery of Precision Grip and Manipulation following Motor and Sensorimotor Lesions in Macaca Mulatta. Presented at the Society for Neuroscience 41st Annual Meeting, Washington DC. (November 2011)

Darling, Warren G., Hynes, Stephanie, Pizzimenti, Marc A., Rotella, Diane, Ge, Jizhi, Stilwell-Morecraft, Kimberly S., and Morecraft, Robert, Hand Preference Influences Accquisition of a Novel Fine Motor Task in Rhesus Monkeys. Presented at the Society for Neuroscience 40th Annual Meeting, San Diego, California. (November 2010)

Hynes, Stephanie, Bartel, L, Darling, Warren, Pizzimenti, Marc, Ge, Jizhi, Stilwell-Morecraft, Kimberly, and Morecraft, Robert, Interlimb Coordination during Learning and Post-lesion Recovery of Bimanual Skill in Macaca Mulatta. Presented at the Society for Neuroscience 40th Annual Meeting, San Diego, California. (November 2010)

Osborn, Roy, and Morecraft, Robert, Gross and Clinical Anatomy Review Workshop of the Cervical Spine and Upper Extremities with a Neuroanatomical Workshop. Presented at the 18th Annual Harry E. Settles Anatomy Review Workshop, Vermillion, SD: Lee Medicine, Rooms L15 and 106. (June 24, 2010)

Morecraft, Robert, Subcortical Organization of Motor Pathways to Brainstem Motor Nuclei and the Spinal Cord. Presented at the Second Congress of the International Society of Intraoperative Neurophysiology, Dubrovnik, Croatia. (November 2009)

Hynes, Stephanie, Geiger, N, Darling, Warren, Pizzimenti, Marc, Rotella, Diane, Ge, Jizhi, , and Morecraft, Robert, Learning and Post-lesion Recovery of Bimanual Skill in Macaca Mulatta. Presented at the Society for Neuroscience 39th Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois. (October 2009)

Morecraft, Robert, Recovery of Ipsilesional Hand Fine Motor Function following Motor Cortex Lesions in Rhesus Monkeys. Presented at the Society for Neuroscience 39th Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois. (October 2009)

Morecraft, Robert, Section on Advanced Head and Neck Anatomy for Resident Surgeons. Presented at the Annual Clinical and Basic Science Course in Otolaryngology, Iowa City, IA. (July 2009)

Morecraft, Robert, Classic Methods for Neuroanatomy:Neural Tract Tracing . Presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping 15th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California. (June 2009)

Morecraft, Robert, Facial Expression: New Insights from Neuroscience. Presented at the Forty Second Annual Winter Conference on Brain Research, Copper Mountain, Colorado. (January 2009)

Darling, Warren, McNeal, David, Ge, Jizhi, Rotella, Diane, Hynes, Stephanie, Cline, Kathrine, Stilwell-Morecraft, Kimberly, and Morecraft, Robert, Recovery of Fine Hand Motor Function following Lesions to Lateral Cortical Motor Areas is associated with Expansion of the Corticospinal Projection from SMA in Non-Human Primates.. Presented at the Society for Neuroscience 38th Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.. (November 2008)

Morecraft, Robert, The Motor Cortex and Facial Expression: New Insights form Neuroscience . Presented at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma Center for Neuroscience, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (November 2008)

Darling, Warren, Pizzimenti, Marc, Rotella, Diane, Hynes, Stephanie, Ge, Jizhi, Cline, Kathrine, Stilwell-Morecraft, Kimberly, and Morecraft, Robert, Minimal Forced use can Overcome Learned Non-use following Isolated Frontal Motor Cortex Lesions in Sub-human Primates.. Presented at the Society for the Neural Control of Movement Annual Conference, Naples, Florida. (May 2008)

Morecraft, Robert, Connectional Correlates of Cytoarchitectonic Differentiation in the Insulofrontal and Cingulofrontal Fields of the Rhesus Monkey. Presented at the Architecture of the Primate Cortex: A Symposium in Honor of Professor von Economo, Trieste, Italy. (March 2008)

Morecraft, Robert, Neuroanatomical Correlates of Motor Recovery following Brain Injury. Presented at the Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Kansas City, Kansas. (February 2008)

Qiu, Mingguo, Rajendra, Justin, Darling, Warren, Morecraft, Robert, Ni, Chun Chun, and Butler, Andy, White Matter Integrity but not BOLD response Predicts Upper Limb Motor Function in Patients after Stroke. Presented at the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (January 2008)

Darling, Warren, Pizzimenti, Marc, Peterson, Clay, Rotella, Diane, McNeal, David, Ge, Jizhi, Cline, Pat, Morecraft, Kimberly, and Morecraft, Robert, Degree of Hand Preference and Lesion Volume Influence Recovery of Hand Motor Function following Lesions of Cortical Motor Areas in Non-human Primates. Presented at the Society for Neuroscience 37th Annual Meeting, San Diego, California. (November 2007)

Hynes, Stephanie, Darling, Warren, Pizzimenti, Marc, Rotella, Diane, McNeal, David, Ge, Jizhi, Cline, Pat, Morecraft, Kimberly, and Morecraft, Robert, Degree of Hand Preference in Rhesus Monkeys has Little Effect on Learning and Skill in Fine Motor Tasks. Presented at the Society for Neuroscience 37th Annual Meeting, San Diego, California. (November 2007)

McNeal, David, Darling, Warren, Pizziminti, Marc, Nagamoto-Combs, Kumi, Combs, Colin, Peterson, Chris, Rotella, Diane, Ge, Jizhi, Stilwell-Morecraft, Kimberly, and , Long-term Reorganization of the Corticospinal Projection from the Supplementary Motor Cortex following Brain Injury is accompanied by Motor Recovery and Prolonged Microgliosis in the Rhesus Monkey. Presented at the Society for Neuroscience 37th Annual Meeting, San Diego, California. (November 2007)

Morecraft, Robert, Functional Organization of Facial Movements and some New Observations on Cortical Innervation of the Hypoglossal Nucleus. Presented at the Movement Disorder Society 11th International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders, Istanbul, Turkey. (June 2007)

Morecraft, Robert, Classic Methods for Neuroanatomy: Neural Tract Tracing. Presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping 13th Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois. (June 2007)

Darling, Warren, Pizzimenti, Marc, Peterson, Clay, Rotella, Diane, McNeal, David, Ge, Jizhi, Cline, Pat, Stilwell-Morecraft, Kimberly, and Morecraft, Robert, Deficits in Fine Motor Control induced by Lesions of Cortical Motor Areas in Non-human Primates. Presented at the Society for Neuroscience 36th Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia. (November 2006)

McNeal, David, Stilwell-Morecraft, Kimberly, and , Stereological Evaluation of the Anterior Cingulate Projection to the Cervical Spinal Cord in the Rhesus Monkey. Presented at the Society for Neuroscience 36th Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia. (November 2006)

Morecraft, Robert, Structural, Molecular and Behavioral Mechanisms Underlying Motor Recovery in the Acute and Long Term Phases of Traumatic Brain Injury. Presented at the Spinal Cord Injury/Traumatic Brain Injury Educational Symposium, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. (November 2006)

Morecraft, Robert, Amygdala Interconnections with the Cingulate Motor Cortex and Some Morphological Observations of Orbicularis Oculi Motor Neurons. Presented at the Brainstorming Session on Cranial Cervical Dystonia. Program Director: Dr. Mark Hallett, Houston, Texas. (September 2006)

Morecraft, Robert, Cerebral Circuits Underlying Orofacial Representation: Neural Correlates for Interpreting Facial Expression; TLE, and Motor Recovery following Brain Trauma. Presented at the Department of Neurology, Maryland Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorder Center, Baltimore, Maryland. (February 2006)

Morecraft, Robert, Cortical Mechanisms Supporting Motor Recovery following Subtotal Brain Injury. Presented at the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology Seminar Series, United Hospital Lecture Hall, Grand Forks, North Dakota. (January 2006)

Morecraft, Robert, Presented at the Grand Rounds, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. (December 2005)

Morecraft, Robert, Presented at the Foundations of Biomedical Science Seminar Series, University of North Dakota School of Medicine, Grand Forks, North Dakota. (April 2004)

Morecraft, Robert, Cortical Mechanisms Supporting Motor Recovery. Presented at the Integrative Neuroscience Research Program, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (October 2003)

Morecraft, Robert, Cytoarchitecture and Cortical Connections of the Posterior Cingulate Cortex and Adjacent Somatosensory Fields in Rhesus Monkey. Presented at the Department of Neurology, Bedford, Massachusetts. (March 2002)

Morecraft, Robert, Presented at the Benign Essential Blepharospasm Research Foundation 19th Annual Movement Disorder Conference, Scottsdale, Arizona. (August 2001)

Morecraft, Robert, Presented at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota. (March 2001)

Morecraft, Robert, Presented at the National Institutes of Health Focal Dystonia Brainstorming Session, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. (November 2000)

Morecraft, Robert, Presented at the Benign Essential Blepharospasm Research Foundation 18th Annual Movement Disorder Conference, Department of Ophthalmology, The University of Kentucky College of Medicine. (August 2000)

Morecraft, Robert, Presented at the Seminar Lecture Series, The University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky. (March 2000)

Morecraft, Robert, Potential Cerebral Cortical Influence on Spasmodic Dysphonia. Presented at the South Dakota Speech, Language and Hearing Association Annual Conference, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. (March 2000)

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