Prof. Petr Hluštík, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Neurology
Petr Hluštík graduated from biomedical engineering (M.Sc., Technical University of Brno, Czech Republic, 1987) and continued into general medicine (M.D., Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic, 1994). As a Fulbright Scholar received Ph.D. from the Center of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A. (1999, advisor, Steven L. Small, M.D., Ph.D.). Prof. Hluštík completed postdoctoral training in the Human Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Chicago, U.S.A. (1999-2002) and, following his return to the Czech Republic, neurology residency at the Department of Neurology, Palacký University Medical School. As a member of neurology faculty, he was promoted to Associate Professor (2007) and Professor (2010).
Prof. Hluštík’s research has focused on studying the human motor and somatosensory systems and their plasticity using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), neurophysiology (EMG, evoked potentials) and motor and clinical testing in healthy people and neurological patients.
Prof. Hluštík has been using fMRI since 1995; in 2003, he founded the Functional MRI Laboratory in Olomouc as a joint enterprise of the Departments of Neurology and Radiology, Palacký University Medical School and University Hospital Olomouc.
Selected Publications 1998-2010
[ All publications at PubMed ]
Book Chapter
- SOLODKIN, A., HLUŠTÍK, P., BUCCINO, G. The Anatomy and Physiology of the Motor System in Humans. In J. Cacioppo, et al. (Eds.), Handbook of Psychophysiology, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007, s. 507-539. Download here
Selected Papers
- ŠENKÁROVÁ, Z., HLUŠTÍK, P., OTRUBA, P., HERZIG, R., KAŇOVSKÝ, P. Modulation of cortical activity in patients suffering from upper arm spasticity following stroke and treated with botulinum toxin A: an fMRI study. Journal of Neuroimaging, 2010, vol. 20, no. 1, s. 9-15. IF 2008: 1.811. Download here
- HERZIG, R., HLUŠTÍK, P., ŠKOLOUDÍK, D., ŠAŇÁK, D., VLACHOVÁ, I., HEŘMAN, M., KAŇOVSKÝ, P. Assessment of cerebral vasomotor reactivity in internal carotid artery occlusion using transcranial doppler sonography and functional MRI. Journal of Neuroimaging, 2008, vol. 18, s. 38-45. IF 1.625. Download here
- MILTON, J., SOLODKIN, A., HLUŠTÍK, P., SMALL, S.L. The mind of expert motor performance is cool and focused. Neuroimage, 2007, vol. 35, no. 2, s. 804-13. IF 5.457. Download here
- HLUŠTÍK, P., MAYER, M. Paretic hand in stroke: from motor cortical plasticity research to rehabilitation [Review]. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, 2006, vol. 19, no. 1, s. 34-40. IF 2.774. Download here
- SOLODKIN, A., HLUŠTÍK, P., CHEN, E.E., SMALL, S.L. Fine modulation in network activation during motor execution and motor imagery. Cerebral Cortex, 2004, vol. 14, no. 11, s. 1246-1255. IF 5.322. Download here
- SMALL, S.L., HLUŠTÍK, P., NOLL, D.C., GENOVESE, C., SOLODKIN, A. Cerebellar hemispheric activation ipsilateral to the paretic hand correlates with functional recovery after stroke. Brain, 2002, vol. 125, no. 7, s. 1544-57. IF 7.122. Download here
- HLUŠTÍK, P., SOLODKIN, A., GULLAPALLI, R.P., NOLL, D.C., SMALL, S.L. Somatotopy in human primary motor and somatosensory hand representations revisited. Cerebral Cortex, 2001, vol. 11, no. 4, s. 312-21. IF 6.578. Download here
- HLUŠTÍK, P., NOLL, D.C., SMALL, S.L. Suppression of vascular artifacts in functional magnetic resonance images using MR angiograms. Neuroimage, 1998, vol. 7, no. 3, s. 224-31. IF 5.611. Download here