Peer Reviewed Articles On Motor Control In Humans


  1. Derakhshan I. Laterality of Seizure Onset and the Simple Reaction Time: Revamping the Poffenberger's Paradigm for Seizure Surgery. , Neurological Research, 2006, Volume 28, October

  2. Derakshan I. Nonconclusive status epilepticus with an unusual EEG: A fresh look at lateralities of motor control and awareness, Epilepsy and Behavior. August 2006

  3. Clinical commentary - Crossed–uncrossed difference (CUD) in a new light: anatomy of the negative CUD in
    Poffenberger’s paradigm    , Acta Neurologica Scandinavica. March 2006

  4. Derakhshan I. Anatomy of handedness and the laterality of seizure onset: surgical implications of new
    understandings in motor control
    Neurol Res 2005; 27: 773–779

  5. Laterality of Motor Control Revisited: Directionality of Callosal Traffic and Its Rehabilitative Implications
    Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation 2005;12(1):76–82

  6. How do the eyes move together? New understandings
    help explain eye deviations in patients with stroke
    CMAJ • JAN. 18, 2005; 172 (2)

  7. Derakhshan, Binder et al; NEUROSURGERY, Kernohan TMS MEP,2005

  8. Derakhshan I, Adler DE , Milhorat TH. Kernohan Notch. J Neurosurg 2004 April; 100: 741-2.

  9. Derakhshan I. Handedness and macular vision: Laterality of motor control underpins both. Neurolo Res. 2004; 26 (3): 311-17  

  10. Derakhshan I, Franz EA, Rowse A. Handedness, neural versus behavioral: is there a measureable callosal difference: J Mot Behav. 2003 Dec; 35(4): 409-14.

  11. Derakhshan I. Callosum and movement control: case reports. Neurol Res. 2003 Jul; 25(5): 538-42.

  12. Derakhshan I. (Editorial) In defense of the sinistrals: anatomy of handedness and the safety of prenatal ultrasound. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol. 2003 Mar; 21(3): 209-12.

  13. Derakhshan I. Laterality of the Command Center in Relation to Handedness and Simple Reaction Time: A Clinical Perspective, Journal of Neurophysiology, 2006

  14. Nature's shell game revealed: evidence for non-Newtonian laterality of macular vision (Ocular integration in the human visual cortex. Vol. 41(5)), Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology, Volume 42, June 2007, Pages 485-486

  15. Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences. May 2006. Abstracts numbers 062, 081, 192


  16. Derakhshan I, Hund-Georgiadis M, Von Cramon DY. Impaired hemodynamics and neural activation? An fMRI study of major cerebral artery stenosis. Neurology 2003 online, December 4. Selected as a peer reviewed correspondence (scheduled for print publication in May, 2004).

  17. The Nays Have It:
    A Critical Re-appraisal of Newton’s Visual Sense of Space    . ieee Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods; MSV 2005

    Scientific/technical note on motor control and other neurological subjects published in peer-reviewed journals since the year 2000


  18. Crossed Aphasia and Laterality of Motor Control, Neurology Dec. 2006

  19. The relationship of time and space in the brain. Neurology_2005; 63 (11) 2139-2141.htm

  20. Callosal Neglect Reexamined
    ARCH NEUROL/ Vol 60, Oct 2003

  21. Letter to the Canadian Medical Association Journal

  22. Letter to the Editor, Hugo Liepmann revisited, this time with numbers 10.1152/jn.00990.2003.

  23. Electroencephalogram and Laterality of Movement Control: A Clinical Analysis
    Journal of Child Neurology Volume: 18 Issue: 12 - 2003 - December

  24. The Preservation of Consciousness, Automatism,
    and Movement Control
    J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 15:4, Fall 2003

  25. Derakhshan I. Crossed aphasia with neglect. Neurol Sci. 2003 Nov; 24(4): 275;author reply 276.

  26. Derakhshan I. The preservation of consciousness, automatism, and movement control. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2003 Fall; 15(4): 456; author reply 456-7.

  27. Derakhshan I, Deidrichsen J. Liepmann revisited, this time with numbers. J Neurophysiol. 2004; April issue in press

  28. Derakhshan I. Callosal neglect reexamined. Arch Neurol. 2003 Oct; 60(10): 1493.  

  29. Derakhshan I. Re. Sinistrality in subtypes of schizophrenia. Eur Psychiatry. 2003 Jun; 18(4): 199.

  30. Derakhshan I. Unsuspected atypical hemispheric dominance for language as determined by FMRI. Handedness: neural versus behavioral: the difference is measurable. Epilepsia. 2003 May; 44(5): 734; author reply 734-5.

  31. Derakhshan I. A new callosal syndrome. Neurorehabil Neural Repair. 2003 Mar; 17(1): 72-3.

  32. Derakhshan I. Improving hand function in chronic stroke: topography of the lesion and role of the corpus callosum. Arch Neurol. 2003 Apr; 60(4): 640; author reply 640-1.

  33. Derakhshan I. Is the middle between both halves? Midpoint location and segment size estimation in neglect. Neurology. 2003 Apr 8; 60(7): 1221; author reply 1221.

  34.  Comments on ‘‘Sugawara, K., & Kasai, T.
    (2002). Facilitation of motor evokedpotentia ls
    andH-reflexe s of flexor carpi radialis muscle
    induced by voluntary teeth clinching.
    Human Movement Science, 21, 203–212’’

  35. Unsuspected Atypical Hemispheric Dominance for
    Language as Determined by fMRI.     Handedness; Neural versus Behavioral, the difference is measurable. Epilepsia, 2003

  36. Derakhshan I. Conflict and integration of spatial attention between disconnected hemispheres. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2003 Mar; 74(3): 395; author reply 395.

  37. Derakhshan I. Why nondominant hand movements cause bilateral cortical activation in emission imaging. Stroke. 2003 Jan; 34(1): 3-4; author reply 3-4.

  38. Derakhshan I. Handedness: neural versus behavioural. Eur J Neurol. 2002 Nov; 9(6): 701-2; author reply 702.

  39. Derakhshan I. Crossed nonaphasia in a dextral with left hemispheric lesions: handedness technically defined. Stroke. 2002 Jul; 33(7): 1749-50; author reply 1749-50.

  40. Derakhshan I. Ipsilateral, but via the callosum: a technical definition of handedness. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2002 May; 83(5): 733; author reply 733-4.  

  41. Cortical Organization, Neurosurgical forum, J Neurosurg June 2005

  42. Derakhshan I, Yuki N. Ataxic Guillain-Barre syndrome with anti-GQIb antibody: relation to Miller Fisher syndrome. Neurology. 2000 Nov 14; 55(9): 1419-20. Erratum in: Neurology 2001 Jan 23; 56(2): 283.

  43. Derakhshan I, Yuki N. Guillain-Barre, Fisher, Bickerstaff syndromes: nature versus well-established ideas. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2000 Nov; 69(5): 703-4.
  44. Derakhshan I. "Can't you use another vaccine"? Post-rabies vaccination encephalitis. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2000 Jun; 68(6): 798.