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Background and Biography:
Steven L. Wolf, Ph.D., PT, FAPTA, is a Research Physiologist at the Center and Professor in the Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine and Medicine, Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell Biology, Emory University School of Medicine. He is also Professor of Health and Elder Care in the Nell Woodruff Hodgson School of Nursing at Emory University.

Dr. Wolf received his Masters and his Ph.D. from Emory University, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. Dr. Wolf has studied the effects of physiological feedback to improve movement and postural control among neurological patients and older individuals. He has been the principal investigator of several NIH funded studies. Dr. Wolf has published over 170 refereed publications, has edited seven books related to physiological feedback, and has lectured on this subject throughout the world. He is past president of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and has received numerous writing and research awards from the American Physical Therapy Association.

Publications:

Banton, S., Wilsey, H., & Wolf, S.L. (2008). Constraint induced movement therapy in stroke rehabilitation: Perspectives on future clinical applications. Neurorehabilitation, 23, 15-28.

Greenfield, B., Goldberg, A., Wolf, S.L., & Curtis, C. (2008). Ethical, legal and social issues of genomics: Implications for physical therapy education. Journal of Physical Therapy Education, 22, 4-14.

Park, S-W., Wolf, S.L., Winstein, C., Morris, D., & Blanton, S. (2008). The EXCITE trial: Predicting a clinically meaningful motor activity log outcome. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 22, 486-493.

Ray, C., Horvat, M., Croce, R., Mason, R.C. & Wolf, S.L. (2008). The impact of vision loss on postural stability and balance strategies in individuals with visual impairments. Gait & Posture, 28, 58-61.

Wolf, S.L., Winstein, C., Miller, J.P., Thompson, P., Taub, E., Uswatte, G., et al (2008). Retention of upper limb function in stroke survivors who have received constraint-induced movement therapy: the EXCITE randomised trial. Lancet Neurology, 7, 33-40.

Wolf, S.L., Maddy, D., Newton, H., Blanton, S., Winstein, C., & Zhang, Q. (2007). The EXCITE trial: Relationship of intensity of constraint induced movement therapy to improvement in the Wolf Motor Function Test. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, 25(5-6), 549-62.