Personal History
Dr. George F. Wittenberg is Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of Maryland. Previously, he was Director of the Rehabilitation Program within the Department of Neurology at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He obtained his doctorate degree in Biology at the University of California, San Diego, in 1991 and completed medical school in 1993 at the same university. Dr. Wittenberg had further clinical and research training at Washington University, St. Louis and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). His clinical interests are in neurorehabilitation, stroke, and movement disorders. He sees both inpatients and outpatients at the VA Medical Center and Kernan Hospital.
Publications
Gerloff C, Bushara K, Sailer A, Wassermann EM, Chen R, Matsuoka T, Waldvogel D, Wittenberg GF, Ishii K, Cohen LG, Hallett M. Multimodal imaging of brain reorganization in motor areas of the contralesional hemisphere of well recovered patients after capsular stroke. Brain 2006;129:791-808
Hancox JG, Wittenberg GF, Yosipovitch G. A patient with nasal ulceration after brain surgery. Arch Dermatol. 2005;141:796-798.
Wittenberg GF, Werhahn KJ, Wassermann EM, Herscovitch P, Cohen LG. Functional connectivity between somatosensory and visual cortex in early blind humans. European Journal of Neuroscience 2004: 20:1923–1927
Wittenberg GF, Chen R, Ishii K, Bushara KO, Eckloff S, Croarkin E, Taub E, Gerber LH, Hallett M, Cohen LG. Constraint-Induced therapy in stroke: magnetic-stimulation motor maps and cerebral activation. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair 2003; 17:111-119.
Muellbacher W, Richards C, Ziemann U, Wittenberg G, Weltz D, Boroojerdi B, Cohen L, Hallett M. Improving hand function in chronic stroke. Arch Neurol. 2002; 59: 1278-82.
Ziemann U, Wittenberg GF, Cohen LG. Stimulation-induced within-representation and across-representation plasticity in human motor cortex. J. Neurosci. 2002; 22: 5563-71
Wittenberg GF, Bastian AJ, Dromerick AW, Thach WT, Powers WJ. Mirror movements complicate cerebral activation changes during recovery from subcortical infarction. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair 2000; 14:213-221
Wittenberg GF, Bushara K, Werhahn KJ, Wassermann EM, Horwitz B, Herscovitch P, Cohen LG. Cortical somatosensory-visual connections in the blind revealed by repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation during PET. Soc. for Neurosci. Abstr. 2000; 26, Part 2, 686.1.
Cohen LG, Wittenberg G. Study of anatomical connectivity with TMS-PET in intact humans. Biol Psychiat 2000; 47: 65S-65S
Wittenberg G, Kristan WB Jr. Analysis and modeling of the multisegmental coordination of shortening behavior in the medicinal leech Analysis and modeling of the multisegmental coordination of shortening behavior in the medicinal leech: I. Motor output pattern. J. Neurophysiol. 1992; 68: 1693-1707.
Wittenberg G, Kristan WB Jr. Analysis and modeling of the multisegmental coordination of shortening behavior in the medicinal leech: II. Role of identified interneurons. J. Neurophysiol. 1992; 68: 1693-1707.
Wittenberg G, Loer CM, Adamo SA, & Kristan WB Jr. Segmental specialization of neuronal connectivity in the leech. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 1990; 167: 453-459.
Lockery SR, Wittenberg G, Kristan WB Jr., Cottrell GW: Function of identified interneurons in the leech elucidated using neural networks trained by back-propagation. Nature 1989; 340: 468-471.
