UCLA Neuroscience Program Ph.D. Admissions Neuroscience Faculty UCLA and Beyond  



Bruce Dobkin
Stroke Research Interests

Home Page: http://neurorehab.neurology.ucla.edu/Home.html

Mailing Address:
710 Westwood Plaza
Work Address:
300 Medical Plaza




Selected Publications:

Lammertse D, Tuszynski MH, Steeves JD, Dobkin B, et al. Guidelines for the conduct of clinical trials for spinal cord injury as developed by the ICCP panel: clinical trial design.. Spinal Cord, 45(3):232-42, 2007. ; .
Dobkin B, Apple D, Barbeau H et al. Weight-supported treadmill vs over-ground training for walking after acute incomplete SCI: a multicenter randomized clinical trial. Neurology 66: 484-493, 2006. ; .
Dobkin Bruce H Progressive Staging of Pilot Studies to Improve Phase III Trials for Motor Interventions.. Neurorehabilitation and neural repair. 2009; 23(3): 197-206.
Dong Yun, Holly Langston T, Albistegui-Dubois Richard, Yan Xiaohong, Marehbian Jonathan, Newton Jennifer M, Dobkin Bruce H Compensatory cerebral adaptations before and evolving changes after surgical decompression in cervical spondylotic myelopathy.. Journal of neurosurgery. Spine. 2008; 9(6): 538-51.
Dobkin Bruce H Training and exercise to drive poststroke recovery.. Nature clinical practice. Neurology. 2008; 4(2): 76-85.
Dobkin Bruce H Curiosity and cure: translational research strategies for neural repair-mediated rehabilitation.. Developmental neurobiology. 2007; 67(9): 1133-47.
Dong Yun, Dobkin Bruce H, Cen Steven Y, Wu Allan D, Winstein Carolee J Motor cortex activation during treatment may predict therapeutic gains in paretic hand function after stroke.. Stroke; a journal of cerebral circulation. 2006; 37(6): 1552-5.
Dobkin Bruce H, Curt Armin, Guest James Cellular transplants in China: observational study from the largest human experiment in chronic spinal cord injury.. Neurorehabilitation and neural repair. 2006; 20(1): 5-13.
Dobkin Bruce H Clinical practice. Rehabilitation after stroke.. The New England journal of medicine. 2005; 352(16): 1677-84.
Dobkin Bruce H, Apple David, Barbeau Hugues, Basso Michele, Behrman Andrea, Deforge Dan, Ditunno John, Dudley Gary, Elashoff Robert, Fugate Lisa, Harkema Susan, Saulino Michael, Scott Michael Methods for a randomized trial of weight-supported treadmill training versus conventional training for walking during inpatient rehabilitation after incomplete traumatic spinal cord injury.. Neurorehabilitation and neural repair. 2003; 17(3): 153-67.
Research Interest:

Recovery of function after brain and spinal cord injury Basic science and clinical studies of recovery of walking Functional neuroimaging of cerebral plasticity