Publications by Professor Roger Whittaker - ePrints

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Newcastle Authors	Title	Year
Dr Linda Heskamp Matt Birkbeck Dan Baxter-Beard Dr Julie Hall Dr Ian Schofield et al.	Motor Unit Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MUMRI) In Skeletal Muscle	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 centres	2023
Professor Roger Whittaker Ruth Wake	Neuromuscular junction involvement in inherited motor neuropathies: genetic heterogeneity and effect of oral salbutamol treatment	2023
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)	2023
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 vivo	2022
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 disease	2022
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 muscles	2022
Michael White Professor Roger Whittaker	Post-Trial Considerations for an Early Phase Optogenetic Trial in the Human Brain	2022
Dr Stuart Maitland Dr Ian Schofield Professor Roger Whittaker	Ultrasound-guided motor unit scanning electromyography	2022
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 imaging	2021
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 muscle	2021
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 pathologies	2020
Matt Birkbeck Dr Linda Heskamp Dr Ian Schofield Professor Andrew Blamire Professor Roger Whittaker et al.	Non-invasive Imaging of Single Human Motor Units	2020
Michael White Dr Michael Mackay Professor Roger Whittaker	Taking Optogenetics into the Human Brain: Opportunities and Challenges in Clinical Trial Design	2020
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 muscle	2020
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 study	2020
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 sclerosis	2019
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 Units	2019
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 Units	2019
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 study	2019
Matt Birkbeck Dr Linda Heskamp Dr Ian Schofield Professor Avan Sayer Professor Andrew Blamire et al.	Non-Invasive Imaging of Human Motor Units	2019
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 syndrome	2019
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 patients	2018
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 disease	2018
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 mutation	2018
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 syndromes	2018
Professor Hanns Lochmuller Professor Roger Whittaker Professor Rita Horvath	Drosophila studies support a role for a presynaptic synaptotagmin mutation in a human congenital myasthenic syndrome	2017
Michael White Professor Roger Whittaker Dr Carolina Gandara de Souza Dr Elizabeth Stoll	A Guide to Approaching Regulatory Considerations for Lentiviral-Mediated Gene Therapies	2017
Partow Yazdani Professor Jenny Read Professor Roger Whittaker Professor Andrew Trevelyan	Assessment of epilepsy using noninvasive visual psychophysics tests of surround suppression	2017
Dr Boglárka Bánsági Dr Helen Griffin Professor Roger Whittaker Dr Teresinha Evangelista Dr James Miller et al.	Genetic heterogeneity of motor neuropathies	2017
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 disease	2016
Anderson Brito Da Silva Professor Roger Whittaker Professor Mark Cunningham	Human brain slices for epilepsy research: Pitfalls, solutions and future challenges	2016
Professor Roger Whittaker Professor Grainne Gorman Dr Yi Ng Emeritus Professor Doug Turnbull	Prevalence and Outcome of Mitochondrial Epilepsy Reply	2016
Professor Roger Whittaker Dr Vandy Dhawan	Slow wave sleep and accelerated forgetting	2016
Dr Ewan Hunter Professor Roger Whittaker Dr Richard McNally Professor Richard Walker	The epilepsy treatment gap in rural Tanzania: a community-based study in adults	2016
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 centre	2015
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 disease	2015
Professor Roger Whittaker Dr Boglarka Bansagi Professor Rita Horvath Professor Hanns Lochmuller	Electrophysiologic features of SYT2 mutations causing a treatable neuromuscular syndrome	2015
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 Study	2015
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 task	2015
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 mechanisms	2015
Professor Roger Whittaker	Video telemetry: Current concepts and recent advances	2015
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 oscillations	2014
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 Neuropathy	2014
Professor Roger Whittaker Professor Patrick Chinnery Dr James Miller	Teaching Video NeuroImages: Muscle cramps and a raised creatine kinase	2014
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 cramps	2013
Professor Roger Whittaker Professor Robert Taylor Emeritus Professor Doug Turnbull	Incidence of carpal tunnel syndrome in adult patients with mitochondrial disease	2013
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 scale	2013
Dr Ana Kosac Erika Gavillet Professor Roger Whittaker	Neurophysiological testing in congenital myasthenic syndromes: A systematic review of published normal data	2013
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 Disease	2013
Dr Timothy Williams Professor Roger Whittaker	A cautionary tale: Threatened compartment syndrome following electromyography in an anticoagulated patient	2012
Professor Roger Whittaker Dr Ewan Hunter Professor Richard Walker	Co-morbidity of epilepsy in Tanzanian children: A community-based case-control study	2012
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 classification	2012
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 conductance	2012
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 disease	2012
Dr Nichola Lax Professor Roger Whittaker Philippa Hepplewhite Dr Amy Reeve Dr Evelyn Jaros et al.	Sensory neuronopathy in patients harbouring recessive polymerase γ mutations	2012
Dr Anna Basu Professor Roger Whittaker Dr Michael McKean Dr Anita Devlin	Teaching NeuroImages: Alternating ptosis and Marcus Gunn jaw-winking phenomenon with PHOX2B mutation	2012
Dr Paul Goldsmith Professor Roger Whittaker Dr Ulrich Schwab	Botulism, recreational drug use revisited: inhalational poisoning or wound infection?: Category: Clinical Lesson	2011
Emeritus Professor Doug Turnbull Professor Roger Whittaker	Hyperventilation during the EEG is safe in mitochondrial disease	2011
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 interneurons	2011
Rebecca Say Professor Roger Whittaker Professor Bobby McFarland Professor Robert Taylor Emeritus Professor Doug Turnbull et al.	Mitochondrial disease in pregnancy: a systematic review	2011
Dr Victoria Nesbitt Professor Roger Whittaker Emeritus Professor Doug Turnbull Professor Bobby McFarland Professor Robert Taylor et al.	mtDNA disease for the neurologist	2011
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 atrophy	2011
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 neocortex	2010
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 management	2010
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 mutations	2010
Dr Joanna Elson Professor Grainne Gorman Professor Roger Whittaker	Older mothers are not at risk of having grandchildren with sporadic mtDNA deletions	2010
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 cells	2010
Professor Roger Whittaker Emeritus Professor Doug Turnbull	A diagnostic tattoo	2009
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 neocortex	2009
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 findings	2009
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	2009
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 segregation	2009
Professor Roger Whittaker Professor Bobby McFarland	The Risk of Complications in Pregnancy and Labour for Women with Mitochondrial Disease	2009
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 Mutation	2009
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 mutation	2008
Dr Andrew Schaefer Professor Bobby McFarland Professor Roger Whittaker Professor Robert Taylor Professor Patrick Chinnery et al.	Prevalence of mitochondrial DNA disease in adults	2008
Dr Andrew Schaefer Professor Roger Whittaker Professor Bobby McFarland Professor Patrick Chinnery Professor Robert Taylor et al.	Reply	2008
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 outcome	2008
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 disease	2007
Professor Roger Whittaker	The prevalence of prolonged cerebral seizures at the first treatment in a course of electroconvulsive therapy	2007
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 adults	2006
Professor Roger Whittaker	Myotonic dystrophy: Practical issues relating to assessment of strength	2006