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Dr Linda Heskamp
Matt Birkbeck
Dan Baxter-Beard
Dr Julie Hall
Dr Ian Schofield
et al.
Motor Unit Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MUMRI) In Skeletal Muscle2024
Professor Roger Whittaker
Neurophysiological and imaging biomarkers of lower motor neuron dysfunction in motor neuron diseases/amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: IFCN handbook chapter2024
Matt Birkbeck
Dr Linda Heskamp
Dr Ian Schofield
Dr Julie Hall
Professor Avan Sayer
et al.
Whole Muscle and Single Motor Unit Twitch Profiles in a Healthy Adult Cohort Assessed With Phase Contrast Motor Unit MRI (PC-MUMRI)2024
Dr Linda Heskamp
Matt Birkbeck
Dr Julie Hall
Dr Ian Schofield
Professor Roger Whittaker
et al.
Whole-body fasciculation detection in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis using motor unit MRI (MUMRI)2024
Dr Stuart Maitland
Professor Roger Whittaker
Estimating motor unit numbers from a CMAP scan: Repeatability study on three muscles at 15 centres2023
Professor Roger Whittaker
Ruth Wake
Neuromuscular junction involvement in inherited motor neuropathies: genetic heterogeneity and effect of oral salbutamol treatment2023
Professor Andrew Blamire
Dr Linda Heskamp
Dr Julie Hall
Professor Roger Whittaker
Editorial For "Quantitative MRI Predicts Electromyography Severity Grades of Denervated Muscle in Neuropathy of the Brachial Plexus"2022
Dr Stuart Maitland
Dr Enrique Escobedo-Cousin
Dr Ian Schofield
Professor Anthony O'Neill
Professor Stuart Baker
et al.
Electrical cross-sectional imaging of human motor units in vivo2022
Dr Yi Ng
Dr Nichola Lax
Dr Alasdair Blain
Dr Daniel Erskine
Professor Mark Baker
et al.
Forecasting stroke-like episodes and outcomes in mitochondrial disease2022
Dr Linda Heskamp
Alexis Miller
Matt Birkbeck
Dr Julie Hall
Dr Ian Schofield
et al.
In vivo 3D imaging of human motor units in upper and lower limb muscles2022
Michael White
Professor Roger Whittaker
Post-Trial Considerations for an Early Phase Optogenetic Trial in the Human Brain2022
Dr Stuart Maitland
Dr Ian Schofield
Professor Roger Whittaker
Ultrasound-guided motor unit scanning electromyography2022
Dr Linda Heskamp
Matt Birkbeck
Professor Roger Whittaker
Dr Ian Schofield
Professor Andrew Blamire
et al.
The muscle twitch profile assessed with motor unit magnetic resonance imaging2021
Matt Birkbeck
Professor Andrew Blamire
Professor Roger Whittaker
Professor Avan Sayer
Dr Richard Dodds
et al.
The role of novel motor unit magnetic resonance imaging to investigate motor unit activity in ageing skeletal muscle2021
Professor Roger Whittaker
Dr Richard Charlton
Dr Rita Barresi
Professor Hanns Lochmuller
Professor Rita Horvath
et al.
Inherited neuropathies with predominant upper limb involvement: genetic heterogeneity and overlapping pathologies2020
Matt Birkbeck
Dr Linda Heskamp
Dr Ian Schofield
Professor Andrew Blamire
Professor Roger Whittaker
et al.
Non-invasive Imaging of Single Human Motor Units2020
Michael White
Dr Michael Mackay
Professor Roger Whittaker
Taking Optogenetics into the Human Brain: Opportunities and Challenges in Clinical Trial Design2020
Matt Birkbeck
Professor Andrew Blamire
Professor Roger Whittaker
Professor Avan Sayer
Dr Richard Dodds
et al.
The role of novel motor unit magnetic resonance imaging to investigate motor unit activity in ageing skeletal muscle2020
Dr Emma Brunton
Dr Enrique Escobedo-Cousin
Dr Gaurav Gupta
Professor Roger Whittaker
Professor Anthony O'Neill
et al.
W:Ti flexible transversal electrode array for peripheral nerve stimulation: A feasibility study2020
Dr Veronika Boczonadi
Dr Monika Olahova
Dr Boglárka Bánsági
Dr Andreas Roos
Dr Vankateswara Ramesh
et al.
Correction: Mitochondrial oxodicarboxylate carrier deficiency is associated with mitochondrial DNA depletion and spinal muscular atrophy–like disease (Genetics in Medicine, (2018), 20, 10, (1224-1235), 10.1038/gim.2017.251)2019
Professor Roger Whittaker
Dr Paola Porcari
Dr Luis Braz
Dr Ian Schofield
Professor Andrew Blamire
et al.
Functional magnetic resonance imaging of human motor unit fasciculation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis2019
Matt Birkbeck
Dr Ian Schofield
Dr Linda Heskamp
Professor Roger Whittaker
Professor Andrew Blamire
et al.
Motor Unit Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MU-MRI) to Determine the Morphology and Distribution of Human Motor Units2019
Matt Birkbeck
Dr Linda Heskamp
Dr Ian Schofield
Professor Roger Whittaker
Professor Andrew Blamire
et al.
Motor Unit Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MU-MRI) to determine the Morphology of Human Motor Units2019
Dr Luis Braz
Dr Yi Ng
Professor Grainne Gorman
Professor Bobby McFarland
Professor Robert Taylor
et al.
Neuromuscular junction abnormalities in mitochondrial disease; an observational cohort study2019
Matt Birkbeck
Dr Linda Heskamp
Dr Ian Schofield
Professor Avan Sayer
Professor Andrew Blamire
et al.
Non-Invasive Imaging of Human Motor Units2019
Dr Grace McMacken
Dr Sally Spendiff
Professor Roger Whittaker
Emily O'Connor
Rachel Howarth
et al.
Salbutamol modifies the neuromuscular junction in a mouse model of ColQ myasthenic syndrome2019
Dr Grace McMacken
Professor Roger Whittaker
Dr Teresinha Evangelista
Professor Hanns Lochmuller
Congenital myasthenic syndrome with episodic apnoea: clinical, neurophysiological and genetic features in the long-term follow-up of 19 patients2018
Dr Veronika Boczonadi
Dr Monika Olahova
Dr Boglarka Bansagi
Dr Andreas Roos
Dr Vankateswara Ramesh
et al.
Mitochondrial oxodicarboxylate carrier deficiency is associated with mitochondrial DNA depletion and spinal muscular atrophy–like disease2018
Dr Boglárka Bánsági
Professor Mark Baker
Matt Jennings
Professor Roger Whittaker
Dr Jennifer Duff
et al.
Multifocal demyelinating motor neuropathy and hamartoma syndrome associated with a de novo PTEN mutation2018
Dr Grace McMacken
Daniel Cox
Dr Andreas Roos
Professor Roger Whittaker
Professor Hanns Lochmuller
et al.
The beta-adrenergic agonist salbutamol modulates neuromuscular junction formation in zebrafish models of human myasthenic syndromes2018
Professor Hanns Lochmuller
Professor Roger Whittaker
Professor Rita Horvath
Drosophila studies support a role for a presynaptic synaptotagmin mutation in a human congenital myasthenic syndrome2017
Michael White
Professor Roger Whittaker
Dr Carolina Gandara de Souza
Dr Elizabeth Stoll
A Guide to Approaching Regulatory Considerations for Lentiviral-Mediated Gene Therapies2017
Partow Yazdani
Professor Jenny Read
Professor Roger Whittaker
Professor Andrew Trevelyan
Assessment of epilepsy using noninvasive visual psychophysics tests of surround suppression2017
Dr Boglárka Bánsági
Dr Helen Griffin
Professor Roger Whittaker
Dr Teresinha Evangelista
Dr James Miller
et al.
Genetic heterogeneity of motor neuropathies2017
Dr Guiseppe Lanza
Dr Ana Kosac
Professor Roger Whittaker
Nerve conduction studies as a measure of disease progression: objectivity or illusion?2017
Dr Albert Lim
Professor Roger Whittaker
Dr Kirstie Anderson
Dr Anna Basu
Progressive weakness, ptosis and pseudomyopathic face as the presenting features in a patient with narcolepsy.2017
Dr Michael Mackay
Dr Hector Mahlaba
Erika Gavillet
Professor Roger Whittaker
Seizure self-prediction; myth or missed opportunity?2017
Dr Nichola Lax
Dr John Grady
Dr Alex Laude
Felix Chan
Philippa Hepplewhite
et al.
Extensive respiratory chain defects in inhibitory interneurones in patients with mitochondrial disease2016
Anderson Brito Da Silva
Professor Roger Whittaker
Professor Mark Cunningham
Human brain slices for epilepsy research: Pitfalls, solutions and future challenges2016
Professor Roger Whittaker
Professor Grainne Gorman
Dr Yi Ng
Emeritus Professor Doug Turnbull
Prevalence and Outcome of Mitochondrial Epilepsy Reply2016
Professor Roger Whittaker
Dr Vandy Dhawan
Slow wave sleep and accelerated forgetting2016
Dr Ewan Hunter
Professor Roger Whittaker
Dr Richard McNally
Professor Richard Walker
The epilepsy treatment gap in rural Tanzania: a community-based study in adults2016
Dr Yi Ng
Professor Roger Whittaker
Professor Bobby McFarland
Emeritus Professor Doug Turnbull
Professor Grainne Gorman
et al.
A clinical audit of acute management of stroke-like episodes from a national mitochondrial disease centre2015
Professor Roger Whittaker
Dr Boglarka Bansagi
Professor Hanns Lochmuller
Professor Rita Horvath
Clinical and Neurophysiological findings in synaptotagmin 2 mutations: a novel and potentially treatable neuromuscular disease2015
Professor Roger Whittaker
Dr Boglarka Bansagi
Professor Rita Horvath
Professor Hanns Lochmuller
Electrophysiologic features of SYT2 mutations causing a treatable neuromuscular syndrome2015
Professor Roger Whittaker
Professor Grainne Gorman
Dr Andrew Schaefer
Professor Rita Horvath
Dr Yi Ng
et al.
Epilepsy in Adults With Mitochondrial Disease: A Cohort Study2015
Professor Jenny Read
Partow Yazdani
Professor Roger Whittaker
Professor Andrew Trevelyan
Dr Ignacio Serrano-Pedraza
et al.
Moderate acute alcohol intoxication has minimal effect on surround suppression measured with a motion direction discrimination task2015
Partow Yazdani
Dr Ignacio Serrano-Pedraza
Professor Roger Whittaker
Professor Andrew Trevelyan
Professor Jenny Read
et al.
Two common psychophysical measures of surround suppression reflect independent neuronal mechanisms2015
Professor Roger Whittaker
Video telemetry: Current concepts and recent advances2015
Dr Alistair Jenkins
Professor Roger Whittaker
Dr Ian Schofield
Dr Gavin Clowry
Professor Mark Cunningham
et al.
Gap junction networks can generate both ripple-like and fast ripple-like oscillations2014
Professor Rita Horvath
Professor Roger Whittaker
Dr Boglarka Bansagi
Dr Angela Pyle
Dr Veronika Boczonadi
et al.
Synaptotagmin 2 Mutations Cause an Autosomal-Dominant Form of Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome and Nonprogressive Motor Neuropathy2014
Professor Roger Whittaker
Professor Patrick Chinnery
Dr James Miller
Teaching Video NeuroImages: Muscle cramps and a raised creatine kinase2014
Dr Stephan Jaiser
Professor Mark Baker
Professor Roger Whittaker
Dr Daniel Birchall
Professor Patrick Chinnery
et al.
Clinical Reasoning: A 39-year-old man with abdominal cramps2013
Professor Roger Whittaker
Professor Robert Taylor
Emeritus Professor Doug Turnbull
Incidence of carpal tunnel syndrome in adult patients with mitochondrial disease2013
Dr Joanna Elson
Mark Cadogan
Professor Roger Whittaker
Professor Mike Trenell
Professor Rita Horvath
et al.
Initial development and validation of a mitochondrial disease quality of life scale2013
Dr Ana Kosac
Erika Gavillet
Professor Roger Whittaker
Neurophysiological testing in congenital myasthenic syndromes: A systematic review of published normal data2013
Katherine Jones
Professor Roger Whittaker
Dr James Miller
Professor Djordje Jakovljevic
Emeritus Professor Doug Turnbull
et al.
The Effects of High Intensity Interval Training on Clinical Symptoms and Functional Capacity in Adults with Neuromuscular Disease2013
Dr Timothy Williams
Professor Roger Whittaker
A cautionary tale: Threatened compartment syndrome following electromyography in an anticoagulated patient2012
Professor Roger Whittaker
Dr Ewan Hunter
Professor Richard Walker
Co-morbidity of epilepsy in Tanzanian children: A community-based case-control study2012
Dr Ewan Hunter
Dr Daniel Birchall
Professor Roger Whittaker
Dr Matthew Jackson
Professor Richard Walker
et al.
Convulsive epilepsy in a rural district of northern Tanzania: risk factors and classification2012
Professor Mark Cunningham
Dr Anita Roopun
Dr Ian Schofield
Professor Roger Whittaker
Dr Alistair Jenkins
et al.
Glissandi: transient fast electrocorticographic oscillations of steadily increasing frequency, explained by temporally increasing gap junction conductance2012
Professor Roger Whittaker
Emeritus Professor Nick Miller
Sue Clark
Professor Robert Taylor
Professor Bobby McFarland
et al.
Prevalence and severity of speech and swallowing difficulties in mitochondrial disease2012
Dr Nichola Lax
Professor Roger Whittaker
Philippa Hepplewhite
Dr Amy Reeve
Dr Evelyn Jaros
et al.
Sensory neuronopathy in patients harbouring recessive polymerase γ mutations2012
Dr Anna Basu
Professor Roger Whittaker
Dr Michael McKean
Dr Anita Devlin
Teaching NeuroImages: Alternating ptosis and Marcus Gunn jaw-winking phenomenon with PHOX2B mutation2012
Dr Paul Goldsmith
Professor Roger Whittaker
Dr Ulrich Schwab
Botulism, recreational drug use revisited: inhalational poisoning or wound infection?: Category: Clinical Lesson2011
Emeritus Professor Doug Turnbull
Professor Roger Whittaker
Hyperventilation during the EEG is safe in mitochondrial disease2011
Professor Roger Whittaker
Emeritus Professor Doug Turnbull
Professor Miles Whittington
Professor Mark Cunningham
Impaired mitochondrial function abolishes gamma oscillations in the hippocampus through an effect on fast-spiking interneurons2011
Rebecca Say
Professor Roger Whittaker
Professor Bobby McFarland
Professor Robert Taylor
Emeritus Professor Doug Turnbull
et al.
Mitochondrial disease in pregnancy: a systematic review2011
Dr Victoria Nesbitt
Professor Roger Whittaker
Emeritus Professor Doug Turnbull
Professor Bobby McFarland
Professor Robert Taylor
et al.
mtDNA disease for the neurologist2011
Professor Mark Baker
Dr Karen Fisher
Professor Roger Whittaker
Philip Griffiths
Dr Patrick Yu Wai Man
et al.
Subclinical multisystem neurologic disease in "pure" OPA1 autosomal dominant optic atrophy2011
Dr Anita Roopun
Dr Jennifer Simonotto
Dr Michelle Pierce
Dr Alistair Jenkins
Dr Ian Schofield
et al.
A nonsynaptic mechanism underlying interictal discharges in human epileptic neocortex2010
Professor Grainne Gorman
Emeritus Professor Doug Turnbull
Professor Rita Horvath
Professor Roger Whittaker
Angela Phillips
et al.
Development and validation of a quality of life scale for mitochondrial disease (MITO-QOL)2010
Dr Jill Cadwgan
Professor Roger Whittaker
Professor Bobby McFarland
Mitochondrial diseases in childhood: a clinical approach to investigation and management2010
Dr Patrick Yu Wai Man
Philip Griffiths
Professor Grainne Gorman
Professor Roger Whittaker
Professor Mark Baker
et al.
Multi-system neurological disease is common in patients with OPA1 mutations2010
Dr Joanna Elson
Professor Grainne Gorman
Professor Roger Whittaker
Older mothers are not at risk of having grandchildren with sporadic mtDNA deletions2010
Dr John Blackwood
Professor Roger Whittaker
Dr Charlotte Alston
Emeritus Professor Doug Turnbull
Professor Robert Taylor
et al.
The investigation and diagnosis of pathogenic mitochondrial DNA mutations in human urothelial cells2010
Professor Roger Whittaker
Emeritus Professor Doug Turnbull
A diagnostic tattoo2009
Dr Anita Roopun
Dr Jennifer Simonotto
Dr Michelle Pierce
Dr Alistair Jenkins
Dr Ian Schofield
et al.
A non-synaptic mechanism underlying interictal discharges in human epileptic neocortex2009
Dr Anita Roopun
Professor Mark Cunningham
Professor Roger Whittaker
Professor Andrew Trevelyan
Dr Andrew Russell
et al.
Detecting seizure origin using basic, multiscale population dynamic measures: Preliminary findings2009
Dr Mazhor Aldosary
Professor Roger Whittaker
Professor Bobby McFarland
Professor Judith Goodship
Emeritus Professor Doug Turnbull
et al.
Neuromuscular disease presentation with three genetic defects involving two genomes2009
Dr Mazhor Aldosary
Professor Roger Whittaker
Professor Bobby McFarland
Professor Judith Goodship
Emeritus Professor Doug Turnbull
et al.
Neuromuscular disease presentation with three genetic defects involving two genomes: The characterisation of a novel mitochondrial tRNA mutation exhibiting skewed segregation2009
Professor Roger Whittaker
Professor Bobby McFarland
The Risk of Complications in Pregnancy and Labour for Women with Mitochondrial Disease2009
Professor Roger Whittaker
Dr John Blackwood
Dr Charlotte Alston
Dr Joanna Elson
Professor Bobby McFarland
et al.
Urine Heteroplasmy is the Best Predictor of Clinical Outcome in the m.3243A>G mtDNA Mutation2009
Professor Bobby McFarland
Professor Roger Whittaker
Professor Robert Taylor
Emeritus Professor Doug Turnbull
Pre-eclampsia and magnesium toxicity with therapeutic plasma level in a woman with m.3243A > G melas mutation2008
Dr Andrew Schaefer
Professor Bobby McFarland
Professor Roger Whittaker
Professor Robert Taylor
Professor Patrick Chinnery
et al.
Prevalence of mitochondrial DNA disease in adults2008
Dr Andrew Schaefer
Professor Roger Whittaker
Professor Bobby McFarland
Professor Patrick Chinnery
Professor Robert Taylor
et al.
Reply2008
Dr Charlotte Alston
Professor Roger Whittaker
Dr John Blackwood
Professor Bobby McFarland
Emeritus Professor Doug Turnbull
et al.
Urinary epithelia as an indicator of m.3243A>G heteroplasmy levels and predictor of clinical outcome2008
Professor Roger Whittaker
Dr Andrew Schaefer
Professor Bobby McFarland
Professor Robert Taylor
Professor Mark Walker
et al.
Diabetes and deafness: Is it sufficient to screen for the mitochondrial 3243A>G mutation alone?2007
Professor Roger Whittaker
Dr Andrew Schaefer
Professor Robert Taylor
Emeritus Professor Doug Turnbull
Differential diagnosis in ptosis and ophthalmoplegia: Mitochondrial disease or myasthenia? [11]2007
Professor Roger Whittaker
Dr Andrew Schaefer
Professor Bobby McFarland
Professor Robert Taylor
Professor Mark Walker
et al.
Prevalence and progression of diabetes in mitochondrial disease2007
Professor Roger Whittaker
The prevalence of prolonged cerebral seizures at the first treatment in a course of electroconvulsive therapy2007
Professor Robert Taylor
Dr Andrew Schaefer
Dr Langping He
Professor Bobby McFarland
Professor Roger Whittaker
et al.
[abstract] The prevalence of pathogenic mitochondrial DNA mutations in adults2006
Professor Roger Whittaker
Myotonic dystrophy: Practical issues relating to assessment of strength2006