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Jane Butler
Current Appointments
Senior Principal Research Scientist
Senior Research Fellow, NHMRC
Professor, UNSW
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Professor Butler is a Senior Principal Research Scientist, NHMRC Research Fellow and co-director of the Spinal Cord Injury Research Centre at Neuroscience Research Australia in Sydney, Australia. Professor Butler is a neurophysiologist with a research focus on the neural control of breathing. She leads a team of researchers examining fundamental and translational outcomes in the neural control of breathing with the aim to improve respiratory motor impairment in ageing, respiratory disorders, and spinal cord injury.
Publications
2025 May
Compartmental inspiratory genioglossus electromyographic activity in supine, awake individuals with and without obstructive sleep apnoea
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1113/JP287943
2025, 01 Feb
Differential effects of stimulation waveform and intensity on the neural structures activated by lumbar transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00266.2024
2025, 01 Jan
Detection and perception of inspiratory resistive loads in older adults with and without chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.00398.2024
2025 Jan
The effect of abdominal functional electrical stimulation on blood pressure in people with high level spinal cord injury
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1038/s41393-024-01046-w
2024 Nov
Pain tolerance and the thresholds of human sensory and motor axons to single and repetitive bursts of kilohertz‐frequency stimulation
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1113/JP286976
2024, 01 Jul
Motor-evoked potentials in the human upper and lower limb do not increase after single 30-min sessions of acute intermittent hypoxia
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.00010.2024
2024, 01 Apr
Graded onset of parasternal intercostal inspiratory activity detected with surface electromyography in healthy young females and males
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.00604.2023
2023 Dec
Regional associations between inspiratory tongue dilatory movement and genioglossus activity during wakefulness in people with obstructive sleep apnoea
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1113/JP285187
2023 Sep
Effect of respiratory muscle training on load sensations in people with chronic tetraplegia: a secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1038/s41393-023-00920-3
2023, 12 Aug
Comparison of two inspiratory muscle training protocols in people with spinal cord injury: a secondary analysis
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1038/s41394-023-00594-2
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