UCSF’s innovative, collaborative approach to patient care, research and education spans disciplines across the life sciences, making it a world leader in scientific discovery and its translation to improving health.

Lauren Hammer, MD, PhD

Non-ACGME Fellow

Neurology

Publications

Personalized chronic adaptive deep brain stimulation outperforms conventional stimulation in Parkinson's disease.

medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences

Oehrn CR, Cernera S, Hammer LH, Shcherbakova M, Yao J, Hahn A, Wang S, Ostrem JL, Little S, Starr PA

Artifact Characterization and a Multipurpose Template-Based Offline Removal Solution for a Sensing-Enabled Deep Brain Stimulation Device.

Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery

Hammer LH, Kochanski RB, Starr PA, Little S

Chronic Sensing of Subthalamic Local Field Potentials: Comparison of First and Second Generation Implantable Bidirectional Systems Within a Single Subject.

Frontiers in neuroscience

Cummins DD, Kochanski RB, Gilron R, Swann NC, Little S, Hammer LH, Starr PA

Enhancing the versatility of wireless biopotential acquisition for myoelectric prosthetic control.

Journal of neural engineering

Bercich RA, Wang Z, Mei H, Hammer LH, Seburn KL, Hargrove LJ, Irazoqui PP

Use of probabilistic weights to enhance linear regression myoelectric control.

Journal of neural engineering

Smith LH, Kuiken TA, Hargrove LJ

Evaluation of Linear Regression Simultaneous Myoelectric Control Using Intramuscular EMG.

IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering

Smith LH, Kuiken TA, Hargrove LJ

Nonlinear mappings between discrete and simultaneous motions to decrease training burden of simultaneous pattern recognition myoelectric control.

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference

Ingraham KA, Smith LH, Simon AM, Hargrove LJ

Real-time simultaneous myoelectric control by transradial amputees using linear and probability-weighted regression.

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference

Smith LH, Kuiken TA, Hargrove LJ

Myoelectric Control System and Task-Specific Characteristics Affect Voluntary Use of Simultaneous Control.

IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society

Smith LH, Kuiken TA, Hargrove LJ

Targeted muscle reinnervation and advanced prosthetic arms.

Seminars in plastic surgery

Cheesborough JE, Smith LH, Kuiken TA, Dumanian GA

Real-time simultaneous and proportional myoelectric control using intramuscular EMG.

Journal of neural engineering

Smith LH, Kuiken TA, Hargrove LJ

Real-time and offline performance of pattern recognition myoelectric control using a generic electrode grid with targeted muscle reinnervation patients.

IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society

Tkach DC, Young AJ, Smith LH, Rouse EJ, Hargrove LJ

A comparison of the real-time controllability of pattern recognition to conventional myoelectric control for discrete and simultaneous movements.

Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation

Young AJ, Smith LH, Rouse EJ, Hargrove LJ

Comparison of surface and intramuscular EMG pattern recognition for simultaneous wrist/hand motion classification.

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference

Smith LH, Hargrove LJ

Classification of simultaneous movements using surface EMG pattern recognition.

IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering

Young AJ, Smith LH, Rouse EJ, Hargrove LJ

Sparse optimal motor estimation (SOME) for extracting commands for prosthetic limbs.

IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society

Li Y, Smith LH, Hargrove LJ, Weber DJ, Loeb GE

Estimation of excitatory drive from sparse motoneuron sampling.

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference

Li Y, Smith LH, Hargrove LJ, Weber DJ, Loeb GE

Determining the optimal window length for pattern recognition-based myoelectric control: balancing the competing effects of classification error and controller delay.

IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society

Smith LH, Hargrove LJ, Lock BA, Kuiken TA

Investigations into pulsed high-intensity focused ultrasound-enhanced delivery: preliminary evidence for a novel mechanism.

Ultrasound in medicine & biology

Hancock HA, Smith LH, Cuesta J, Durrani AK, Angstadt M, Palmeri ML, Kimmel E, Frenkel V