Anastasia Keller, PhD
Assistant Researcher
Neurological Surgery
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• post-doc SCI, chronic low back pain UCSF 05/2022
• post-doc spinal cord injury (clinical research) University of Louisville 05/2020
• PhD spinal cord injury (basic science) University of Louisville 08/2017

Interests

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• neurophysiology
• spinal cord injury
• neuromodulation
• transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation
• pain neurobiology

Grants and Projects

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• Application of Transcutaneous Spinal Cord Stimulation for Chronic Low Back Pain, UCSF Catalyst Award, 2022-2023

Publications (10)

Top publication keywords:
Spinal Cord InjuriesGaitWeightlessnessReflex, StretchPostureHindlimbElectromyographyMuscle Stretching ExercisesSpineNociceptorsRats, Sprague-DawleyLocomotionRecovery of FunctionMuscle, SkeletalRange of Motion, Articular

• Safety and Feasibility of Cervical and Thoracic Transcutaneous Spinal Cord Stimulation to Improve Hand Motor Function in Children With Chronic Spinal Cord Injury.
  Neuromodulation : journal of the International Neuromodulation Society 2023 Singh G, Keller A, Lucas K, Borders C, Stout D, King M, Parikh P, Stepp N, Ugiliweneza B, D'Amico JM, Gerasimenko Y, Behrman AL
• Transcutaneous Spinal Stimulation From Adults to Children: A Review.
  Topics in spinal cord injury rehabilitation 2022 Singh G, Lucas K, Keller A, Martin R, Behrman A, Vissarionov S, Gerasimenko YP
• Unsupervised Machine Learning on Motion Capture Data Uncovers Movement Strategies in Low Back Pain.
  Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology 2022 Keller AV, Torres-Espin A, Peterson TA, Booker J, O'Neill C, Lotz JC, Bailey JF, Ferguson AR, Matthew RP
• Using hierarchical unsupervised learning to integrate and reduce multi-level and multi-paraspinal muscle MRI data in relation to low back pain.
  European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society 2022 Torres-Espin A, Keller A, Johnson GTA, Fields AJ, Krug R, Ferguson AR, Hargens AR, O'Neill CW, Lotz JC, Bailey JF
• Noninvasive spinal stimulation safely enables upright posture in children with spinal cord injury.
  Nature communications 2021 Keller A, Singh G, Sommerfeld JH, King M, Parikh P, Ugiliweneza B, D'Amico J, Gerasimenko Y, Behrman AL

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• Broad opioid antagonism amplifies disruption of locomotor function following therapy-like hindlimb stretching in spinal cord injured rats.
  Spinal cord 2021 States GJR, Keller A, Shum-Siu A, Petruska JC, Magnuson DSK
• Nociceptor-dependent locomotor dysfunction after clinically-modeled hindlimb muscle stretching in adult rats with spinal cord injury.
  Experimental neurology 2019 Keller AV, Hainline C, Rees K, Krupp S, Prince D, Wood BD, Shum-Siu A, Burke DA, Petruska JC, Magnuson DSK
• Electromyographic patterns of the rat hindlimb in response to muscle stretch after spinal cord injury.
  Spinal cord 2018 Keller AV, Rees KM, Seibt EJ, Wood BD, Wade AD, Morehouse J, Shum-Siu A, Magnuson DSK
• Dynamic "Range of Motion" Hindlimb Stretching Disrupts Locomotor Function in Rats with Moderate Subacute Spinal Cord Injuries.
  Journal of neurotrauma 2017 Keller A, Rees K, Prince D, Morehouse J, Shum-Siu A, Magnuson D
• Disruption of Locomotion in Response to Hindlimb Muscle Stretch at Acute and Chronic Time Points after a Spinal Cord Injury in Rats.
  Journal of neurotrauma 2016 Keller AV, Wainwright G, Shum-Siu A, Prince D, Hoeper A, Martin E, Magnuson DS