Past Research

Publications/Presentations


Cheever K, McDevitt J, Wright WG, Tierney R (accepted). Exploring the Relationship between Musculoskeletal Injury and Clinical Outcome Measures of Cervical Sensorimotor Function. International Journal of Athletic Therapy & Training.

Almajid R, Tucker C, Keshner E, Vasudevan E, Wright WG (2021). Effects of wearing a head-mounted display during a standard clinical test of dynamic balance. Gait Posture. 85:78-83. doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2021.01.020. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33517040.

Cheever K, McDevitt J, Wright WG, Tierney R (2021). Differences in cervical kinesthesia between amateur athletes with and without a history of contact sport participation. Brain Inj. 35(4):404-410. doi: 10.1080/02699052.2021.1878551.

Krasovsky T, Lubetzky AV, Archambault PS, Wright WG (2020). Will virtual rehabilitation replace clinicians: a contemporary debate about technological versus human obsolescence. J Neuroeng Rehabil. 9;17(1):163. doi: 10.1186/s12984-020-00769-0.

Handy JD, Wright WG, Haskell A, Servatius L, Servatius RJ (2020). Enhanced Acquisition and Retention of Conditioned Eyeblink Responses in Veterans Expressing PTSD Symptoms: Modulation by Lifetime History of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. Front Behav Neurosci. 14:595007. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2020.595007.

Ojha HA, Fritz JM, Brandi JA, Wu J, Malitsky AL, Beidleman R, Mobo B, Rhon D, Weiner M, Wright WG (2020). Comparison of Physical Therapy and Physician Pathways for Employees with Recent Onset Musculoskeletal Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial. PM&R.

Almajid R, Tucker C, Wright WG, Vasudevan E, Keshner E (2020). Visual dependence affects the motor behavior of older adults during the Timed Up and Go (TUG) test. Arch Gerontol Geriatr. 87:104004. doi: 10.1016/j.archger.2019.104004.

Wright WG (2019). Tonic Neuromuscular Processing Affects Postural Adaptation Differently in Aging and Parkinson's Disease. Frontiers in neurology, 9, 1130. doi:10.3389/fneur.2018.01130

Appiah-Kubi KO, Wright WG. (2019). Vestibular training promotes adaptation of multisensory integration in postural control. Gait Posture. 73:215-220. doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2019.07.197.

Ma L, Tornetto F, Egan W, Wright WG. (2019). Virtual reality therapy as adjunct to traditional physical therapy for a TBI patient who suffered a gunshot wound to the head: Case report. Proceedings of the International Conference on Virtual Rehabilitation (ICVR), Tel Aviv, Israel.

Marchetto J, Wright WG. (2019). The validity of the Oculus Rift to assess postural changes during a balance tasks. Hum Factors, 61(8):1340-52. doi: 10.1177/0018720819835088.

Rhea CK, Schleich KN, Washington L, Glass SM, Ross SE, Etnier JL, Wright WG, Goble DJ, Duffy DM (2019). Neuromotor and neurocognitive performance in female American football players relative to previously published data. Athletic Training & Sports Health Care. 11(5), 224-233.

Wright WG, Handy JD, Avcu P, Ortiz A, Haran FJ, Doria M, Servatius RJ (2018). Healthy Active Duty Military with Lifetime Experience of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Exhibits Subtle Deficits in Sensory Reactivity and Sensory Integration During Static Balance. Mil Med.183(suppl_1):313-320.

Cheever KM, McDevitt J, Tierney RT, Wright WG (2018). Effects of concussion recovery phase on symptom provocation using vestibular and oculomotor assessments. Int J Sport Med. 39(2):141-14.

Servatius RJ, Handy JD, Doria MJ, Myers CE, Marx CE, Lipsky R, Ko N, Avcu P, Wright WG, Tsao JW (2018). Stress-Related Mental Health Symptoms in Coast Guard: Incidence, Vulnerability and Neurocognitive performance. Frontiers in Psychology, 8:1513.

Agresta C, Ward CR, Wright WG, Tucker CA (2018). The Effect of Unilateral Arm Swing Motion on Lower Extremity Running Mechanics Associated with Injury Risk. Sports Biomechanics. 17(2):206-215.

Wright WG, Tierney R, McDevitt J (2017). Visual-vestibular processing deficits in mTBI. J Vest Res, 27(1):27-37.

Thompson ED, Agada P, Wright WG, Reimann H, Jeka J (2017). Spatiotemporal gait changes with use of an arm swing cueing device in people with Parkinson’s disease. Gait and Posture. 58:46-51.

Dale ML, Horak FB, Wright WG, Schoneburg BM, Nutt JG, Mancini M (2017). Impaired perception of surface tilt in progressive supranuclear palsy. PloS one 12 (3), e0173351

Rhea CK, Kuznetsov NA, Bailie JM, Yanagi MA, Long B, Haran FJ, Ross SE, Wright WG, Robins RK, Jakiela JT, Sargent PD, Duckworth JL (2017). Development of a portable tool for screening neuromotor sequelae from repetitive low-level blast exposure. J Mil Med. 182.

Wright WG, McDevitt J, Tierney R, Haran FJ, Appiah-Kubi K, Dumont A (2016). Assessing subacute mild traumatic brain injury with a portable virtual reality balance device. Disability and Rehabilitation, 10:1-9.

McDevitt J, Appiah-Kubi K, Tierney R, Wright WG (2016) Vestibular and Oculomotor Assessments May Increase Accuracy of Subacute Concussion Assessment. Int J Sports Med. 37:738-747. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-100470

Haran FJ, Slaboda JC, King LA, Wright WG, Houlihan D, Norris JN (2016). Sensitivity of the Balance Error Scoring System and the Sensory Organization Test in the Combat Environment. Journal of Neurotrauma. 32:1-7. PubMed PMID: 26560740.

Ojha HA, Brandi JA, Finn KM, Wright WG (2016) Cost Efficiency of Direct Access Physical Therapy for Temple University Employees with Musculoskeletal Injuries. Orthopaedic Physical Therapy Practice. 27, 4:15.

Wright WG, McDevitt J, Appiah-Kubi K (2015) A portable virtual reality balance device to assess mild traumatic brain injury symptoms: A pilot validation study. IEEE Proc ICVR2015, pp 72-79. doi: 10.1109/ICVR.2015.735859112.

Rhea CK, Kiefer AW, Wright WG, Raisbeck LD, Haran FJ (2015) Interpretation of postural control may change due to data processing techniques. Gait Posture, 41(2):731-5.

Rhea CK, Kiefer AW, Wittstein MW, Leonard KB, MacPherson RP, Wright WG, Haran FJ (2014). Fractal gait patterns are retained after entrainment to a fractal stimulus. PLoS One. 9(9): e106755.

Wright WG (2014). Using virtual reality to augment perception, enhance sensorimotor adaptation, and change our minds. Front Syst Neurosci. 8:56. eCollection.

Wright WG, Creem-Regehr SH, Warren WH, Anson E, Jeka J, Keshner EA (2013). Sensorimotor Recalibration in Virtual Environments. In Virtual Reality for Physical and Motor Rehabilitation (PL Weiss, EA Keshner, M Levin, Eds.). New York, NY: Springer.

Wright WG (2013) Using virtual reality to induce cross-axis adaptation of postural control: Implications for rehabilitation, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Proceedings of the International Conference for Virtual Rehabilitation (ICVR 2013).

Ivanenko YP, Wright WG, St George RJ and Gurfinkel VS (2013) Trunk orientation, stability, and quadrupedalism. Front. Neurol. 4:20.

Wright WG, Agah M, Darvish K, Keshner EA (2013). Head stabilization shows multisensory dependence on spatiotemporal characteristics of visual and inertial passive stimulation. IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng. 21(2):191-7.

Haran FJ, Tierney RT, Wright WG, Keshner EA, Sitler MR (2013). Acute postural control changes after soccer heading. Int J Sports Med. 34(4):350-4.

Wright WG, Ivanenko YP, Gurfinkel VS (2012). Foot anatomy specialization for postural sensation and control. J Neurophys. 107:1513-21.

Wright WG (2011) Tonic postural lean after-effects influenced by support surface dynamics. Hum Mov Sci. 30(2):238-48.

Franzén E, Gurfinkel VS, Wright WG, Cordo PJ, Horak FB (2011). Haptic touch reduces sway by increasing axial tone. Neuroscience, 174: 216-23.

Agah M, Darvish K, Wright WG, Keshner EA (2011). Dependency of spatiotemporal characteristics of head stabilization on visual and inertial stimulation. Proc Am Soc Biomech

Wright WG, Gurfinkel VS, King LA, Nutt J, Cordo PJ, Horak F (2010). Axial kinesthesia in Parkinson's disease: Effects of levodopa. Exp Neurol. 225(1):202-209.

Wright WG, Schneider E (2009), Manual motor control during “virtual” self-motion: Implications for VR rehabilitation, IEEE Proc ICVR2009, pp.166-172.

Wright WG (2009), Linear vection in virtual environments can be strengthened by discordant inertial input, IEEE Proc Eng Med Biol Soc, pp.1157-1160.

Wright WG, Schneider E, Glasauer S (2009). Compensatory motor responses of object-wielding during combined linear visual and physical roll tilt stimulation, Exp Brain Res. 192:683-694.

Cordo PJ , Lutsep, H, Cordo L, Wright WG, Cacciatore TC, Skoss R (2009). Assisted Movement with Enhanced Sensation (AMES): Coupling Motor and Sensory to Remediate Motor Deficits in Chronic Stroke Patients, Neurorehabil Neural Repair, 23(1):67-77.

Wright WG, Gurfinkel VS, Nutt J, Horak F, Cordo PJ (2007). Axial hypertonicity in Parkinson's disease: Direct measurements of trunk and hip torque. Exp Neurol. 208(1):38-46.

Wright WG, Horak F (2007). Interaction of posture and conscious perception of gravitational vertical and surface horizontal. Exp Brain Res. 182(3):321-32.

Wright WG, Gurfinkel VS, King L, Horak F (2007). Parkinson’s disease shows perceptuomotor asymmetry unrelated to motor symptoms. Neurosci Lett 417(1):10-15.

Wright WG, DiZio P, Lackner JR (2006). Apparent self-motion in two visual contexts: Dissociable mechanisms underlie perception. J Vest Res 16:23-28.

Wright WG, Glasauer S (2006) Subjective somatosensory vertical during dynamic tilt is dependent on task, inertial condition, and multisensory concordance. Exp Brain Res 172(3): 310-321.

Ivanenko YP, Wright WG, Gurfinkel VS, Horak FB, Cordo PJ (2006) Interaction of involuntary post-contraction activity with locomotor movements. Exp Brain Res 169(2):255-60.

Wright WG, Horak F (2005). Perception of verticality during dynamic postural tasks. Gait and Posture 21(Supp.1) S57.

Wright WG, DiZio P, Lackner JR. (2005) Vertical linear self-motion perception during virtual visual and inertial stimulation: More than weighted summation of sensory inputs. J Vest Res 15(4): 185-195.

Wright WG, Glasauer S (2003). Haptic subjective vertical shows context dependence: Task and vision play a role during dynamic tilt stimulation. Ann NY Acad Sci. 1004: 531-5.

Bryant DJ, Wright WG (1999). How body asymmetries determine accessibility in spatial frameworks. Q J Exp Psych, 52 (2):487-508.

Grants and Contracts

DoD-Army Research Laboratories. “Advanced Ballistics Technology: Material Development, Characterization and Computational Modeling”. The objective is to provide state of the art concussion assessment to Temple University Division I and recreation student athletes to improve clinical, research, and educational outcomes including (1) improve patient management and outcomes through standardized state of the art assessment and (2) bridge the gap between clinical practice and research to aid in player safety. (Co-I: Wright WG, PI: Masucci M, Co-PI: Tierney, R)

DoD Defense Health Program. “TBI Assessment of Readiness Using a Gait Evaluation Test (TARGET): Development of a Portable mTBI Screening Device”. (Site-PI: Wright; PI: Rhea CK at UNC-G)

Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (US Army Rapid Innovation Fund) - Virtual Environment TBI Screening (VETS) device validation for postural assessment on a mild traumatic brain injury population (PI: Wright)

NSF(HCC) - Student Incentives for Interdisciplinary Training (Conference Grant - International Conference for Virtual Rehabilitation)

VAMC Stars and Stripes Seed Grant - Tonic Neuromuscular Processes in Healthy Elderly and Parkinson's Disease

Faculty Senate Seed Grant - Visual Vestibular Processing in Virtual Reality

CPH Research Seed Grant – Using electromyography (EMG), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to understand the role of tonic neuromuscular processing in aging and Parkinson's disease