CENTRE FOR RESEARCH EXCELLENCE IN STROKE REHABILITATION AND BRAIN RECOVERY

Stroke survivors' perceptions of the factors that influence engagement in activity outside dedicated therapy sessions in a rehabilitation unit: A qualitative study.

Heidi Janssen, Marie-Louise Bird, Julie Luker, Annie McCluskey, Jannette Blennerhassett, Louise Ada, Julie Bernhardt, Neil J Spratt

2022-06-01

OBJECTIVE: To investigate stroke survivors' perceptions of factors influencing their engagement in activity outside of dedicated t..

Co-Designing a New Yoga-Based Mindfulness Intervention for Survivors of Stroke: A Formative Evaluation

Tharshanah Thayabaranathan, Maarten A Immink, Susan Hillier, Rene Stolwyk, Nadine E Andrew, Philip Stevens, Monique F Kilkenny, Emma Gee, Leeanne Carey, Amy Brodtmann, Julie Bernhardt, Amanda G Thrift, Dominique A Cadilhac

2022-03-01

Movement-based mindfulness interventions (MBI) are complex, multi-component interventions for which the design process is rarely r..

Impairments, and physical design and culture of a rehabilitation unit influence stroke survivor activity: qualitative analysis of rehabilitation staff perceptions

Heidi Janssen, Marie-Louise Bird, Julie Luker, Ben Sellar, Angela Berndt, Samantha Ashby, Annie McCluskey, Louise Ada, Jannette Blennerhassett, Julie Bernhardt, Neil J Spratt

2022-02-02

PURPOSE: This study aimed to investigate rehabilitation staff perceptions of factors influencing stroke survivor activity outside ..

Structural Connectivity Remote From Lesions Correlates With Somatosensory Outcome Poststroke

Chia-Lin Koh, Chun-Hung Yeh, Xiaoyun Liang, Rishma Vidyasagar, Rudiger J Seitz, Michael Nilsson, Alan Connelly, Leeanne M Carey

2021-09-01

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Changes in connectivity of white matter fibers remote to a stroke lesion, suggestive of structural connect..

Distance-based Classification and Regression Trees for the analysis of complex predictors in health and medical research

Hannah Johns, Julie Bernhardt, Leonid Churilov

2021-07-28

Predicting patient outcomes based on patient characteristics and care processes is a common task in medical research. Such predict..

Early Mobilization After Stroke: Do Clinical Practice Guidelines Support Clinicians' Decision-Making?

Venesha Rethnam, Kathryn S Hayward, Julie Bernhardt, Leonid Churilov

2021-02-05

Importance: Early mobilization, out-of-bed activity, is a component of acute stroke unit care; however, stroke patient heterogenei..

Advancing Stroke Recovery Through Improved Articulation of Nonpharmacological Intervention Dose

Kathryn S Hayward, Leonid Churilov, Emily J Dalton, Amy Brodtmann, Bruce CV Campbell, David Copland, Numa Dancause, Erin Godecke, Tammy C Hoffmann, Natasha A Lannin, Matthew W McDonald, Dale Corbett, Julie Bernhardt

2021-02-01

Dose articulation is a universal issue of intervention development and testing. In stroke recovery, dose of a nonpharmaceutical in..

Determining Maximal Tolerable Aerobic Training Intensity in the Acute Phase after Stroke: a Novel Dose Ranging Trial Protocol

Sharon F Kramer, Toby Cumming, Liam Johnson, Leonid Churilov, Julie Bernhardt

2020-12-01

INTRODUCTION: There is strong evidence that cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) training improves fitness and mobility after stroke. D..

Look closer: The multidimensional patterns of post-stroke burden behind the modified Rankin Scale

Venesha Rethnam, Julie Bernhardt, Hannah Johns, Kathryn S Hayward, Janice M Collier, Fiona Ellery, Lan Gao, Marj Moodie, Helen Dewey, Geoffrey A Donnan, Leonid Churilov

2020-08-27

BACKGROUND: The utility-weighted modified Rankin Scale, representing patient perspectives of quality of life, is a newly proposed ..

Longitudinal Stroke Recovery Associated With Dysregulation of Complement System-A Proteomics Pathway Analysis

Vinh A Nguyen, Nina Riddell, Sheila G Crewther, Pierre Faou, Harinda Rajapaksha, David W Howells, Graeme J Hankey, Tissa Wijeratne, Henry Ma, Stephen Davis, Geoffrey A Donnan, Leeanne M Carey

2020-07-28

Currently the longitudinal proteomic profile of post-ischemic stroke recovery is relatively unknown with few well-accepted biomark..

Early mobilisation post-stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis of individual participant data

Venesha Rethnam, Peter Langhorne, Leonid Churilov, Kathryn S Hayward, Fanny Herisson, Simone R Poletto, Yanna Tong, Julie Bernhardt

2020-07-15

PURPOSE: To investigate the safety and efficacy of early mobilisation (EM) compared to usual care by meta-analysing individual par..

Exploring post acute rehabilitation service use and outcomes for working age stroke survivors (<= 65 years) in Australia, UK and South East Asia: data from the international AVERT trial

Rosy Walters, Janice M Collier, Lillian Braighi Carvalho, Peter Langhorne, Md Ali Katijjahbe, Dawn Tan, Marj Moodie, Julie Bernhardt

2020-06-01

OBJECTIVES: Information about younger people of working age (≤65 years), their post stroke outcomes and rehabilitation pathways ca..

Cerebral haemodynamics with head position changes post-ischaemic stroke: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Lilian B Carvalho, Sharon Kramer, Karen Borschmann, Brian Chambers, Vincent Thijs, Julie Bernhardt

2020-05-13

The effects of upright postures on the cerebral circulation early post-ischaemic stroke are not fully understood. We conducted a s..

Clustering clinical and health care processes using a novel measure of dissimilarity for variable-length sequences of ordinal states

Hannah Johns, John Hearne, Julie Bernhardt, Leonid Churilov

2020-04-16

Clinical and health care processes are often summarised through sequences of ordinal data describing patient's state over time. Id..

Bringing the single versus multi-patient room debate to vulnerable patient populations: a systematic review of the impact of room types on hospitalized older people and people with neurological disorders

MM Shannon, R Lipson-Smith, M Elf, J Olver, S Kramer, J Bernhardt

2020-01-01

Single-patient rooms are commonly recommended in acute hospital environments. People with neurological disorders, and those who ar..

A Stroke Recovery Trial Development Framework: Consensus-Based Core Recommendations from the Second Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Roundtable

Julie Bernhardt, Kathryn S Hayward, Numa Dancause, Natasha A Lannin, Nick S Ward, Randolph J Nudo, Amanda Farrin, Leonid Churilov, Lara A Boyd, Theresa A Jones, S Thomas Carmichael, Dale Corbett, Steven C Cramer

2019-11-01

A major goal of the Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Roundtable (SRRR) is to accelerate development of effective treatments to e..

Longitudinal changes in activity participation in the first year post-stroke and association with depressive symptoms

Tamara Tse, Thomas Linden, Leonid Churilov, Stephen Davis, Geoffrey Donnan, Leeanne M Carey

2019-10-09

Research question: 1. Does activity participation improve over time in the first year after stroke? 2. What is the association of ..

Correlated Resting-State Functional MRI Activity of Frontostriatal, Thalamic, Temporal, and Cerebellar Brain Regions Differentiates Stroke Survivors with High Compared to Low Depressive Symptom Scores

Peter Goodin, Gemma Lamp, Rishma Vidyasagar, Alan Connelly, Stephen Rose, Bruce C Campbell, Tamara Tse, Henry Ma, David Howells, Graeme J Hankey, Stephen Davis, Geoffrey Donnan, Leeanne M Carey

2019-07-28

BACKGROUND: One in three survivors of stroke experience poststroke depression (PSD). PSD has been linked with poorer recovery of f..

Setting the scene for the Second Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Roundtable

Julie Bernhardt, Karen N Borschmann, Gert Kwakkel, Jane H Burridge, Janice J Eng, Marion F Walker, Marie-Louise Bird, Steven C Cramer, Kathryn S Hayward, Michael J O'Sullivan, Andrew N Clarkson, Dale Corbett, Michael O'Sullivan, Andrew Clarkson, Gert Kwaldcel, Jane Burridge, Erwin VanWegen, Steve Cramer, Janice Eng, Marion Walker

2019-07-01

The Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Roundtable (SRRR) meetings bring together an international group of preclinical and clinica..

Activity Monitors for Increasing Physical Activity in Adult Stroke Survivors

Elizabeth A Lynch, Taryn M Jones, Dawn B Simpson, Natalie A Fini, Suzanne Kuys, Karen Borschmann, Sharon Kramer, Liam Johnson, Michele L Callisaya, Niruthikha Mahendran, Heidi Janssen, Coralie English

2019-01-01

A mixed-methods study to explore opinions of research translation held by researchers working in a Centre of Research Excellence in Australia

Elizabeth A Lynch, Shanthi A Ramanathan, Sandy Middleton, Julie Bernhardt, Michael Nilsson, Dominique A Cadilhac

2018-09-01

OBJECTIVE: There is a growing need for researchers to demonstrate impact, which is reliant on successful research translation. The..

Exploring the rehabilitation pathways for stroke survivors across three international geographical regions in the AVERT trial

Lilian Carvalho, Rosy Walters, Karen Borschmann, Janice Collier, Julie Bernhardt

2018-08-01

Implementing a protocol for a research impact assessment of the Centre for Research Excellence in Stroke Rehabilitation and Brain Recovery

Shanthi Ramanathan, Penny Reeves, Simon Deeming, Julie Bernhardt, Michael Nilsson, Dominique A Cadilhac, Frederick Rohan Walker, Leeanne Carey, Sandy Middleton, Elizabeth Lynch, Andrew Searles

2018-08-01

BACKGROUND: There is growing recognition that the wider benefits of research (economic, social and health impacts) should be asses..

What do rehabilitation researchers think about research translation? A mixed methods study

Elizabeth Lynch, Shanthi Ramanathan, Sandy Middleton, Julie Bernhardt, Michael Nilsson, Dominique Cadilhac

2018-08-01

Activity monitors for increasing physical activity in adult stroke survivors

Elizabeth A Lynch, Taryn M Jones, Dawn B Simpson, Natalie A Fini, Suzanne S Kuys, Karen Borschmann, Sharon Kramer, Liam Johnson, Michele L Callisaya, Niruthikha Mahendran, Heidi Janssen, Coralie English

2018-01-01

BACKGROUND: Stroke is the third leading cause of disability worldwide. Physical activity is important for secondary stroke prevent..

Altered functional connectivity differs in stroke survivors with impaired touch sensation following left and right hemisphere lesions

Peter Goodin, Gemma Lamp, Rishma Vidyasagar, David McArdle, Ruediger J Seitz, Leeanne M Carey

2018-01-01

One in two survivors experience impairment in touch sensation after stroke. The nature of this impairment is likely associated wit..

Biomarkers of Stroke Recovery: Consensus-Based Core Recommendations from the Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Roundtable

Lara A Boyd, Kathryn S Hayward, Nick S Ward, Cathy M Stinear, Charlotte Rosso, Rebecca J Fisher, Alexandre R Carter, Alex P Leff, David A Copland, Leeanne M Carey, Leonardo G Cohen, D Michele Basso, Jane M Maguire, Steven C Cramer

2017-10-01

The most difficult clinical questions in stroke rehabilitation are "What is this patient's potential for recovery?" and "What is t..

Agreed definitions and a shared vision for new standards in stroke recovery research: The Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Roundtable taskforce

Julie Bernhardt, Kathryn S Hayward, Gert Kwakkel, Nick S Ward, Steven L Wolf, Karen Borschmann, John W Krakauer, Lara A Boyd, S Thomas Carmichael, Dale Corbett, Steven C Cramer

2017-07-01

The first Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Roundtable established a game changing set of new standards for stroke recovery resea..

Biomarkers of stroke recovery: Consensus-based core recommendations from the Stroke Recovery and Rehabilitation Roundtable

Lara A Boyd, Kathryn S Hayward, Nick S Ward, Cathy M Stinear, Charlotte Rosso, Rebecca J Fisher, Alexandre R Carter, Alex P Leff, David A Copland, Leeanne M Carey, Leonardo G Cohen, D Michele Basso, Jane M Maguire, Steven C Cramer

2017-07-01

The most difficult clinical questions in stroke rehabilitation are "What is this patient's potential for recovery?" and "What is t..

Increased work and social engagement is associated with increased stroke specific quality of life in stroke survivors at 3 months and 12 months post-stroke: a longitudinal study of an Australian stroke cohort

Tamara Tse, Siti Zubaidah Binte Yusoff, Leonid Churilov, Henry Ma, Stephen Davis, Geoffrey Alan Donnan, Leeanne M Carey

2017-01-01

BACKGROUND: There is a relative lack of longitudinal studies investigating stroke-specific outcomes and quality of life (QOL). Thi..

Inequities in access to inpatient rehabilitation after stroke: an international scoping review

Elizabeth A Lynch, Dominique A Cadilhac, Julie A Luker, Susan L Hillier

2017-01-01

Background Inequities in accessing inpatient rehabilitation after stroke have been reported in many countries and impact on patien..

Early Mobilization After Stroke Early Adoption but Limited Evidence

Julie Bernhardt, Coralie English, Liam Johnson, Toby B Cumming

2015-04-01