Colum D. MacKinnon

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
80 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Colum D. MacKinnon is a scholar working on Neurology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Colum D. MacKinnon has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Neurology, 35 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 30 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Colum D. MacKinnon's work include Neurological disorders and treatments (31 papers), Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (31 papers) and Muscle activation and electromyography studies (28 papers). Colum D. MacKinnon is often cited by papers focused on Neurological disorders and treatments (31 papers), Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (31 papers) and Muscle activation and electromyography studies (28 papers). Colum D. MacKinnon collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Colum D. MacKinnon's co-authors include David A. Winter, John C. Rothwell, David P. Allen, Tanya Simuni, Laila Alibiglou, Elizabeth L. Stegemöller, Anthony N. Carlsen, Gwyn N. Lewis, Eric J. Perreault and Mark W. Rogers and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Colum D. MacKinnon

79 papers receiving 2.8k citations

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Control of whole body balance in the frontal plane during human walking

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Colum D. MacKinnon United States	29	1.1k	996	879	808	632	80	2.8k
Laura Avanzino Italy	35	1.3k 1.1×	614 0.6×	909 1.0×	1.6k 1.9×	806 1.3×	118	4.0k
Susanne M. Morton United States	23	1.0k 0.9×	747 0.8×	860 1.0×	231 0.3×	537 0.8×	50	2.4k
P. Crenna Italy	26	798 0.7×	1.3k 1.3×	1.1k 1.2×	674 0.8×	361 0.6×	45	2.8k
Jesse C. Dean United States	24	584 0.5×	993 1.0×	717 0.8×	264 0.3×	521 0.8×	54	2.3k
Ina M. Tarkka Finland	31	1.4k 1.2×	703 0.7×	392 0.4×	564 0.7×	619 1.0×	108	3.4k
Ichiro Miyai Japan	31	1.3k 1.2×	1.3k 1.3×	973 1.1×	832 1.0×	552 0.9×	82	4.4k
John E. Misiaszek Canada	30	992 0.9×	1.1k 1.1×	459 0.5×	215 0.3×	586 0.9×	68	2.2k
J. Quintern Germany	23	834 0.7×	1.3k 1.3×	697 0.8×	548 0.7×	231 0.4×	45	2.4k
Elisa Pelosin Italy	33	826 0.7×	674 0.7×	1.6k 1.8×	1.8k 2.3×	443 0.7×	128	4.2k
Hans-Christoph Diener Germany	25	1.9k 1.7×	698 0.7×	1.5k 1.7×	597 0.7×	1.1k 1.8×	54	4.1k

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Chung, Jae Woo, Matthew N. Petrucci, Scott E. Cooper, et al.. (2025). Accelerated Progression of Gait Impairment in Parkinson's Disease and REM Sleep Without Atonia. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology. 13(3). 517–529.

Mancini, Martina, J. Lucas McKay, Nicholas D’Cruz, et al.. (2025). Technology for measuring freezing of gait: Current state of the art and recommendations. Journal of Parkinson s Disease. 15(1). 19–40. 5 indexed citations

Shemmell, Jonathan, et al.. (2024). Different descending pathways mediate early and late portions of lower limb responses to transcranial magnetic stimulation. Journal of Neurophysiology. 131(6). 1299–1310. 1 indexed citations

Patriat, Rémi, Jae Woo Chung, Angela M. Noecker, et al.. (2024). Neural pathways associated with reduced rigidity during pallidal deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease. Journal of Neurophysiology. 132(3). 953–967. 1 indexed citations

Verma, Ajay, Ying Yu, Mark Fiecas, et al.. (2024). Slow-wave sleep dysfunction in mild parkinsonism is associated with excessive beta and reduced delta oscillations in motor cortex. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 18. 1338624–1338624. 3 indexed citations

Aman, Joshua E., Luke A. Johnson, Jing Wang, et al.. (2023). Low-frequency deep brain stimulation reveals resonant beta-band evoked oscillations in the pallidum of Parkinson’s Disease patients. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 17. 1178527–1178527. 2 indexed citations

Patriat, Rémi, Pramod Kumar Pisharady, Michael J. Howell, et al.. (2022). White matter microstructure in Parkinson’s disease with and without elevated rapid eye movement sleep muscle tone. Brain Communications. 4(2). fcac027–fcac027. 4 indexed citations

Sanabria, David Escobar, Joshua E. Aman, Luke A. Johnson, et al.. (2022). Controlling pallidal oscillations in real-time in Parkinson's disease using evoked interference deep brain stimulation (eiDBS): Proof of concept in the human. Brain stimulation. 15(5). 1111–1119. 13 indexed citations

Verma, Ajay, Ying Yu, David Escobar Sanabria, et al.. (2022). Parkinsonian daytime sleep-wake classification using deep brain stimulation lead recordings. Neurobiology of Disease. 176. 105963–105963. 7 indexed citations

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MacKinnon, Colum D., et al.. (2022). Postural instability in Parkinson’s disease assessed with clinical “pull test” and standardized postural perturbations: effect of medication and body weight support. Journal of Neurology. 270(1). 386–393. 3 indexed citations

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Petrucci, Matthew N., Paul Tuite, Andrew Lamperski, et al.. (2021). Semi-automated approaches to optimize deep brain stimulation parameters in Parkinson’s disease. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation. 18(1). 83–83. 15 indexed citations

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McGovern, Robert A., et al.. (2020). Comparison of forward and backward postural perturbations in mild-to-moderate Parkinson's disease. Gait & Posture. 84. 205–208. 3 indexed citations

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Stegemöller, Elizabeth L., Cindy Zadikoff, Joshua M. Rosenow, & Colum D. MacKinnon. (2013). Deep brain stimulation improves movement amplitude but not hastening of repetitive finger movements. Neuroscience Letters. 552. 135–139. 15 indexed citations

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Creath, Robert A., Michelle G. Prettyman, Lisa Shulman, et al.. (2013). Self-triggered assistive stimulus training improves step initiation in persons with Parkinson’s disease. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation. 10(1). 11–11. 11 indexed citations

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Stegemöller, Elizabeth L., David P. Allen, Tanya Simuni, & Colum D. MacKinnon. (2010). Rate-dependent impairments in repetitive finger movements in patients with Parkinson's disease are not due to peripheral fatigue. Neuroscience Letters. 482(1). 1–6. 20 indexed citations

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Prodoehl, Janey, et al.. (2008). Changes in the Relationship Between Movement Velocity and Movement Distance in Primary Focal Hand Dystonia. Journal of Motor Behavior. 40(4). 301–314. 9 indexed citations

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Lewis, Gwyn N., Eric J. Perreault, & Colum D. MacKinnon. (2005). The influence of perturbation duration and velocity on the long-latency response to stretch in the biceps muscle. Experimental Brain Research. 163(3). 361–369. 52 indexed citations

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MacKinnon, Colum D., Paul Silberstein, Stephen Tisch, et al.. (2005). Stimulation through electrodes implanted near the subthalamic nucleus activates projections to motor areas of cerebral cortex in patients with Parkinson's disease. European Journal of Neuroscience. 21(5). 1394–1402. 73 indexed citations

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Modugno, Nicola, Colum D. MacKinnon, Saša R. Filipović, et al.. (2001). Motor cortex excitability following short trains of repetitive magnetic stimuli. Experimental Brain Research. 140(4). 453–459. 97 indexed citations

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Josephs, Oliver, B.S. Athwal, Colum D. MacKinnon, et al.. (1999). Transcranial magnetic stimulation with simultaneous undistorted functional magnetic resonance imaging. NeuroImage. 9. 4 indexed citations

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