Neurology

Thomas E. Prieto, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Neurology

Specialty: Adult Neurology

Sub-Specialty:

• Ambulatory Systems
• Biomedical Instrumentation

Education:

• B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri - Columbia, 1978
• Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University, 1988

Awards/Honors:

• Patent Number: 4,657,655.  "Foto/Phoresis Apparatus"; An apparatus for electrophoretically separating, visualizing, and photographing DNA fragments in agarose gels.  Smoot, J.B., Vitek, R.K., Gette, W.R., Prieto, T.E.; FOTODYNE, Inc., New Berlin, WI

Brief Clinical/Research Interest Statement

Ambulatory systems for measuring human motion; systems for presenting stimuli, recording subject responses, and monitoring physiologic events during functional magnetic resonance imaging; laboratory based systems for evaluating the autonomic nervous system; novel treatments of diabetic neuropathy; design and development of biomedical instrumentation.

Selected Publications:

Original Articles

• Prieto, T.E., Myklebust, J.B., and Myklebust, B.M.:  Characterization of postural steadiness and ankle joint compliance in the elderly. IEEE EMBS Magazine.  11(4):25-27, 1992.
• Prieto, T.E., Myklebust, J.B., and Myklebust, B.M.:  Characterization and modeling of postural steadiness in the elderly.  IEEE Trans. Rehabilitation Eng.  1(1):26-34, 1993.
• Myklebust, J.B., Cusick, J.F., Boerboom L.E., Prieto, T.E., and Khan, T.A.:  Vascular effects of spinal cord stimulation in the monkey. Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurg.  64(1):32-9, 1995.
• Myklebust, J.B., Prieto, T.E., and Myklebust, B.M.:  Evaluation of nonlinear dynamics in postural steadiness time series.  Annals Biomed. Eng.  23:711-719, 1995.
• Kerk, J.K., Clifford, P.S., Snyder, A.C., Prieto, T.E., O'Hagan, K.P., Schot, P.K., Myklebust, J.B., and Myklebust, B.M.:  Effect of an abdominal binder during wheelchair exercise.  Med. Sci. Sports Exerc.  27(6):913-919, 1995.
• Prieto, T.E., Myklebust, J.B., and Myklebust, B.M.:  Measures of postural steadiness: Differences between healthy young and elderly adults. IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng.  43(9):956-966, 1996.
• Binder, J.R., Frost, J.A., Hammeke, T.A., Cox, R.W., Rao, S.M., and Prieto, T.:  Human Brain Language Areas Identified by Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging.  J. Neurosci.  17(1):353-362, 1997.
• Kodali, S., Harvey, S.A., and Prieto, T.E.:  Thermal effects of laser stapedectomy on the inner ear - an animal model.  Laryngoscope.  107:1444-1450, 1997.
• Pathak, A.P., Silver-Thorn, M.B., Thierfelder, C.A., and Prieto, T.E.:  A rate-controlled indentor for in vivo analysis of residual limb tissues. IEEE Trans. Rehabil. Eng.  6(1):12-20, 1998.
• Rosen, A.C., Caffarra, P., Scaglioni, A., Bobholz, J.A., Woodley, S.J., Hammeke, T.A., Cunningham, J.M., Prieto, T.E., Binder. J.A., and Rao, S.M.:  Neural basis of endogenous and exogenous spatial orienting: a FMRI study.  J. Cogn. Neurosci.  January, 1999.
• Reynolds, N.C., Myklebust, B.M., Myklebust, J.B., and Prieto, T.E.:  Analysis of gait in Huntington's disease.  Arch. Phys. Med. Rehabil.  80(1), 1999.
• Jaradeh, S.S., Prieto, T.E., and Lobeck, L.J.:  Progressive polyradiculoneuropathy in diabetes: correlation of variables and clinical outcome after immunotherapy.  J. Neur. Neurosurg. Psychiatry.  67:607-612, 1999.
• Jaradeh, S.S., Smith, T.L., Torrico, L., Prieto, T.E., Loehrl, T.A., Darling, R.J., and Toohill, R.B.:  Autonomic nervous system evaluation of patients with vasomotor rhinitis.  Laryngoscope.  110:1828-1831, 2000.
• Reynolds, N.C., Jr., Terry, L.C., Mark, L.P., Prieto, T.E., Mueller, W.R.:  Too many treatments for Parkinson's disease: how should they be used?  Wisconsin Medical J.  57-61, June 2000.

Books, Chapters and Reviews:

• Prieto, T.E., Myklebust, J.B., Myklebust, B.M., and Kreis, D.U.:  Inter-group sensitivity in measures of postural steadiness.  In Posture and Gait: Control Mechanisms, 1992.  M. Woollacott and F. Horak, eds.  XIth Intl. Symposium of the Society for Postural and Gait Research.  Univ. of Oregon Books, Portland, OR.  2:122-125, 1992.
• Myklebust, J.B., Myklebust, B.M., Prieto, T.E., and Kreis, D.:  Correlation of ankle joint compliance and postural steadiness.  In Posture and Gait: Control Mechanisms, 1992.  M. Woollacott and F. Horak, eds.  XIth Intl. Symposium of the Society for Postural and Gait Research.  Univ. of Oregon Books, Portland, OR.  1:352-355, 1992.
• Myklebust, B.M., Myklebust, J.B., Prieto, T.E., and Kreis, D.:  Changes in kinematic gait parameters in healthy aging subjects.  In Posture and Gait: Control Mechanisms, 1992.  M. Woollacott and F. Horak, eds.  XIth Intl. Symposium of the Society for Postural and Gait Research.  Univ. of Oregon Books, Portland, OR.  2:295-297, 1992.