Randolph J. Nudo is an American neuroscientist and academic known for his contributions to rehabilitation medicine and neuroplasticity. He currently holds the position of University Distinguished Professor and Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Education
Nudo completed his Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Statistics at Pennsylvania State University and continued his studies at Florida State University, where he received a Masters degree in psychology and a doctorate in Psychology and Neuroscience. He then undertook a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Physiology at the University of California, San Francisco.
Career
He began his career at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, where he held the position of associate professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy.
He serves as editor-in-chief for Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair (journal) and deputy editor for Brain Stimulation (journal).
He also served for 20 years as a director of the Landon Center on Aging, an interdisciplinary research center at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Nudo and his partner, Pedram Mohseni, had co-owned the trademark and the company NeuraLink since 2015. The trademark was acquired by Elon Musk in 2017 and rebranded to Neuralink.
Awards and honors
He has received a number of awards, including the Javits Investigator Award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for his work on neuroscience.
Selected publications
- "Stimulation-evoked effective connectivity (SEEC): An in-vivo approach for defining mesoscale corticocortical connectivity" (2023)
- "Methods and associated neural prosthetic devices for bridging brain areas to improve function" (2017)
- "Restoration of function after brain damage using a neural prosthesis" (2013)
- "Brain repair after stroke" (2010)
- "Cortical brain stimulation: a potential therapeutic agent for upper limb motor recovery following stroke" (2007)
- "Dissociation of sensorimotor deficits after rostral versus caudal lesions in the primary motor cortex hand representation" (2005)
- "Extensive cortical rewiring after brain injury" (2005)
- "Motor learning-dependent synaptogenesis is localized to functionally reorganized motor cortex" (2002)
- "Role of sensory deficits in motor impairments after injury to primary motor cortex" (2000)
- "Effects of repetitive motor training on movement representations in adult squirrel monkeys: role of use versus learning" (2000)
- "Functional reorganization of the rat motor cortex following motor skill learning" (1998)
- "Reorganization of movement representations in primary motor cortex following focal ischemic infarcts in adult squirrel monkeys" (1996)
- "Use-dependent alterations of movement representations in primary motor cortex of adult squirrel monkeys" (1996)
- "Neural substrates for the effects of rehabilitative training on motor recovery after ischemic infarct" (1996)
- "Descending pathways to the spinal cord: a comparative study of 22 mammals" (1988)
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