Ranu Jung

Ranu Jung Ranu Jung, Ph.D.
Wallace H. Coulter Eminent Scholars Chair of Biomedical Engineering
Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering
RJung@fiu.edu
EC 2602
(305) 348-3722
(305) 348-6954 Fax

Neural Engineering; Computational Neuroscience; Sensorimotor Integration

Adaptive Neural Systems Laboratory

Curriculum Vitae

Biography

Selected Publications:

Biohybrid Systems: Nerves, Interfaces, and Machines, First Edition. Edited by Ranu Jung. 2011 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

01. Hillen, BK, JJAbbas, R Jung. Accelerating locomotor recovery after incomplete spinal cord injury. Annals NY Acad. Sci. (In Press) 2013.

02. Venugopal, S, T Hamm, S Crook, R Jung.  Modulation of inhibitory strength and kinetics facilitates regulation of persistent inward currents and motoneuron excitability following spinal cord injury. Journal of Neurophysiology. 106:2167-2179, 2011. First published online 20 July 2011, doi: 10.1152/jn.00359.2011.

03. Kurian M, S Crook and R Jung. Motoneuron model of self-sustained firing after spinal cord injury, Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 2011 (DOI 10.1007/s10827-011-0324-1).

04. Turkin, V, D O‘Neill, R Jung, A Yarkov, T Hamm. Characteristics and organization of discharge properties in rat hindlimb motoneurons. Journal of  Neurophysiology, 104:1549-1565, 2010. doi:10.1152/jn.00379.2010

05. Hamm T, V Turkin, N Bandekar, D O’Neill, and R Jung.  Persistent currents and discharge patterns in rat hindlimb motoneurons.  Journal of Neurophysiology 104:1566-1577, 2010. doi:10.1152/jn.00380.2010

06. Fairchild, M, SJ Kim, A Iarkov, JJ Abbas, R Jung. Repetitive hindlimb movement using intermittent adaptive neuromuscular electrical stimulation in an incomplete spinal injury rodent model. Experimental Neurology, 223:623-633, 2010.

07. Jung R, A Belanger, T Kanchiku, M Fairchild, and JJ Abbas. Neuromuscular stimulation therapy after incomplete spinal cord injury promotes interlimb coordination during locomotion. Journal of Neural Engineering, 2009, 055010 (14pp) (doi:10.1088/1741-2560/6/5/055010)

08. Jung R, K Ichihara, G Venkatasubramanian and JJ Abbas. Chronic neuromuscular electrical stimulation of paralyzed hindlimbs in a rodent model. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 183:241-254, 2009 (doi:10.1016/j.jneumeth.2009.06.043).

09. Kim S-J, M Fairchild, A Iarkov, JJ Abbas and R Jung. Adaptive control of  movement for neuromuscular stimulation-assisted therapy in a rodent model. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 56(2):452-461, 2009.

10.  +Lynskey JV, +A Bellanger and R Jung. Activity dependent plasticity in spinal cord injury. Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development, 45(2): 229-240, 2008  (Invited review; +These authors contributed equally)

11. Venkatasubramanian G, R Jung, JD Sweeney. “Functional Electrical Stimulation”, In: The Wiley Encyclopedia of Medical Devices and Instrumentation, 2nd Edition, Editor. J. G. Webster, Wiley, March 2006. ISBN: 0-471-26358-3; Pages: 347-366

12. Thota A, S Carlson-Watson, E.J. Knapp, BT Thompson, and R Jung. Neuromechanical control of locomotion in the rat. Journal of Neurotrauma, 22(4): 442-465, 2005.

13. Wang H and R Jung. Variability analyses suggest that supraspino-spinal interactions provide dynamic stability in motor control. Brain Research, 930(1-2):83-100, 2002. (Cover  vol. 933(2), April 2002)

14. Jung R, EJ Brauer, and JJ Abbas. Real-time interaction between a neuromorphic electronic circuit and the spinal cord. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 9(3):319-326, 2001.

15. Jung R, T Kiemel, and AH Cohen. Dynamic behavior of a neural network model of locomotor control in the lamprey. Journal of Neurophysiology, 75(3):1074-1086, 1996.