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Faculty Biography

Warren G. Darling, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Doctoral Degree: Physiology
Institution: University of Western Ontario (1985)

Office: 530 Field House
Office Phone: (319) 335-9514
e-mail: warren-darling@uiowa.edu

Specializations: Motor Control & Biomechanics

Courses Taught:

27:150 Gross Anatomy for Exercise Science
27:155 Skeletal Muscle Biology
27:314 Seminar in Motor Control

Research Interests:
Our research focuses on the control of upper limb movements and recovery of hand motor function following stroke-induced hemiplegia. The overall research goals are to understand: (1) how the brain processes visual, vestibular and propriceptive information to specify location, orientation and motion of objects and the upper limb, (2) effects of brain lesions in posterior parietal lobe and motor areas on control of reaching and grasping, and (3) mechanisms underlying recovery of hand movement control following brain lesions.

Recent Publications:
Darling W, Wolf S, Butler A. (2006): Variability of motor potentials evoked by transcranial magnetic stimulation depends on muscle activation. Experimental Brain Research 174(2):376. Click here for the reference.

Darling WG, Peterson CR, Herrick JL, McNeal DW, Stilwell-Morecraft KS, Morecraft RJ. (2006): Measurement of coordination of object manipulation in non-human primates. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 154(1-2):38.
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Ethier C, Brizzi L, Darling WG, Capaday C. (2006): Linear summation of cat motor cortex outputs. Journal of Neuroscience 26(20):5574-81.
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Darling WG, Bartelt R. (2005): The visual perception coordinate system uses axes defined by the Earth, trunk, and vision. Perception 34(1):17-30.
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Darling WG, Bartelt R, Rizzo M. (2004): Unilateral posterior parietal lobe lesions disrupt kinaesthetic representation of forearm orientation. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 75(3):428-35.
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Darling WG, Pizzimenti MA, Rizzo M. (2003): Unilateral posterior parietal lobe lesions affect representation of visual space. Vision Research 43:1675-1688.
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