Craig D. Takahashi
Papers
6
Total Citations
341
H-Index
5
About
Craig D. Takahashi is a leading researcher in motor control and neurorehabilitation, with a focus on understanding how the nervous system plans and adapts movement in both healthy individuals and those with neurological impairments. His work bridges fundamental motor learning theory with practical robotic therapy design. Takahashi’s most cited paper (153 citations) demonstrates that hemiparetic stroke disrupts the brain’s ability to anticipate and prepare arm movements, a key insight for rehabilitation. He also showed that children’s motor performance is limited by elevated neuromotor noise, not by a deficit in adaptation capacity (71 citations)—a finding that reframes how we understand pediatric motor development. In translational work, Takahashi co-designed a novel, single-motor robotic device for arm movement therapy after stroke (61 citations), and he investigated how muscle fatigue alters the brain’s formation and retention of internal models (47 citations). His research has been published in top journals including *Experimental Brain Research* and *Journal of Neurophysiology*, and his contributions have shaped both robotic rehabilitation engineering and our theoretical understanding of motor adaptation under real-world constraints.
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Top Papers
- 1Hemiparetic stroke impairs anticipatory control of arm movement153 citations · 2003
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- 3Design of robot assistance for arm movement therapy following stroke61 citations · 2001
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- 5Robot-based hand motor therapy after stroke5 citations · 2007
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