Staff Profile
Dr Mark Baker
Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer
- Email: mark.baker@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: 0191 208 6897
- Address: Institute of Neuroscience
The Medical School
Newcastle University
Framlington Place
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE2 4HH
Background
Dr Mark Baker is a Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer and Consultant Clinical Neurophysiologist/Neurologist in the Institute of Neuroscience at Newcastle University. His areas of expertise are sensorimotor systems neuroscience and experimental neurology.
Publications
- Choudhury S, Singh R, Chatterjee P, Trivedi S, Shubham S, Baker MR, Kumar H, Baker SN. Abnormal Blink Reflex and Intermuscular Coherence in Writer's Cramp. Frontiers in Neurology 2018, 9, 517.
- Baker MR, Dharmadasa T, Jaiser SR, Kiernan MC. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis – Time for beta testing?. Clinical Neurophysiology 2018, 129(7), 1455-1456.
- Simpson AJ, Cunningham MO, Baker MR. Electrodiagnostic applications of somatosensory evoked high-frequency EEG oscillations: Technical considerations. Brain Research Bulletin 2018, 137, 351-355.
- Bansagi B, Phan V, Baker MR, O'Sullivan J, Jennings MJ, Whittaker RG, Müller JS, Duff J, Griffin H, Miller JAL, Gorman GS, Lochmüller H, Chinnery PF, Roos A, Swan LE, Horvath R. Multifocal demyelinating motor neuropathy and hamartoma syndrome associated with a de novo PTEN mutation. Neurology 2018, 90(21), e1842-e1848.
- Malek N, Baker MR. Common toxidromes in movement disorder neurology. Postgraduate Medical Journal 2017, 93(1100), 326-332.
- Basu AP, Pearse JE, Forsyth R, Baker M. Congenital mirror movements and unusual neurophysiology - is the reticulospinal tract to blame?. In: British Paediatric Neurology Association Annual Meeting. 2017, Cambridge: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
- Malek N, Baker MR, Mann C, Greene J. Electroencephalographic markers in dementia. Acta Neurologica Scandinavica 2017, 135(4), 388-393.
- Keogh MJ, Jaiser SR, Steele HE, Horvath R, Chinnery PF, Baker MR. PLP1 mutations and central demyelination: evidence from electrophysiologic phenotyping in female manifesting carriers. Neurology: Clinical Practice 2017, 7(5).
- Jaiser SR, Baker MR, Baker SN. Intermuscular Coherence in Normal Adults: Variability and Changes with Age. PLoS ONE 2016, 11(2), e0149029.
- Cromarty RA, Elder GJ, Graziadio S, Baker M, Bonanni L, Onofrj M, O'Brien JT, Taylor J-P. Neurophysiological biomarkers for Lewy body dementias. Clinical Neurophysiology 2016, 127(1), 349-359.
- Cromarty RA, Elder GJ, Graziadio S, Baker M, Bonanni L, Onofrj M, O'Brien JT, Taylor JP. Neurophysiological biomarkers for Lewy body dementias. Clinical Neurophysiology 2016, 127(1), 349–359.
- Yarnall AJ, Ho BSW, Eshun E, David R, Rochester L, Burn DJ, Baker MR. Short latency afferent inhibition: Effects of ageing. Clinical Neurophysiology 2016, 127(6), 2410-2413.
- Galan F, Baker MR, Alter K, Baker SN. Degraded EEG Decoding of Wrist Movements in Absence of Kinaesthetic Feedback. Human Brain Mapping 2015, 36(2), 643-654.
- Murphy N, Killen A, Graziadio S, Peraza LR, Firbank M, Baker M, Elder G, Thomas A, McKeith I, Rochester L, Taylor J-P. Early Bottom-Up Visual Information Processing in Hallucinating Patients with Parkinson’s Disease with Dementia: A Preliminary Visual Evoked Potential Study. In: International Dementia with Lewy Bodies Conference 2015. 2015, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA: American Journal of Neurodegenerative Disease.
- Jaiser SR, Barnes JD, Baker SN, Baker MR. A multiple regression model of normal central and peripheral motor conduction times. Muscle & Nerve 2014, 51(5), 706-712.
- Baker MR. ALS-dying forward, backward or outward?. Nature Reviews Neurology 2014, 10(11), 660.
- Pfeffer G, Gorman GS, Griffin H, Kurzawa-Akanbi M, Blakely EL, Wilson I, Sitarz K, Moore D, Murphy JL, Alston CL, Pyle A, Coxhead J, Payne B, Gorrie GH, Longman C, Hadjivassiliou M, McConville J, Dick D, Imam I, Hilton D, Norwood F, Baker MR, Jaiser SR, Yu-Wai-Man P, Farrell M, McCarthy A, Lynch T, McFarland R, Schaefer AM, Turnbull DM, Horvath R, Taylor RW, Chinnery PF. Mutations in the SPG7 gene cause chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia through disordered mitochondrial DNA maintenance. Brain 2014, 137(5), 1323-1336.
- Yarnall AJ, Del Din S, David R, Galna B, Baker MR, Burn DJ, Rochester L. Postural control stabilises over the first 30 seconds of quiet standing in Parkinson’s disease: time series analysis. In: International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society's 18th International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders. 2014, Stockholm, Sweden.
- Trenado C, Amtage F, Huethe F, Schulte-Monting J, Mendez-Balbuena I, Baker SN, Baker M, Hepp-Reymond MC, Manjarrez E, Kristeva R. Suppression of Enhanced Physiological Tremor via Stochastic Noise: Initial Observations. PLoS One 2014, 9(11), e112782.
- Jaiser SR, Baker MR, Whittaker RG, Birchall D, Chinnery PF. Clinical Reasoning: A 39-year-old man with abdominal cramps. Neurology 2013, 81(2), e5-e9.
- Fisher KM, Chinnery PF, Baker SN, Baker MR. Enhanced reticulospinal output in patients with (REEP1) hereditary spastic paraplegia type 31. Journal of Neurology 2013, 260(12), 3182-3184.
- Yarnall AJ, Rochester L, Baker MR, David R, Khoo TK, Duncan GW, Galna B, Burn DJ. Short latency afferent inhibition: A biomarker for mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease?. Movement Disorders 2013, 28(9), 1285-1288.
- Jaiser S, Fisher KM, Zaaimi B, Seow H, Miller JAL, Chinnery PF, Williams TL, Baker SN, Baker MR. 15-30 HZ Intermuscular Coherence as a Potential Biomarker of Upper Motor Neuron Dysfunction in Motor Neuron Disease. In: Annual Meeting of the Association of British Neurologists 2011. 2012, Gateshead, UK: B M J Group.
- Anitema B, Hall S, Ahuja N, Preston S, Keown P, McKinnon I, Baker M, Hart Y, Cunningham M, Watson S. A pilot study of anti-NMDA receptor antibodies in psychosis. In: International Congress of the Royal College of Psychiatrists - Psychiatry: medicine and the future. 2012, Liverpool, UK: Royal College of Psychiatrists.
- Baker MR, Baker SN. Beta-Adrenergic Modulation of Tremor and Corticomuscular Coherence in Humans. PLoS One 2012, 7(11), e49088.
- Fisher KM, Zaaimi B, Williams TL, Baker SN, Baker MR. Beta-band intermuscular coherence: a novel biomarker of upper motor neuron dysfunction in motor neuron disease. Brain 2012, 135(9), 2849-2864.
- Rochester L, Yarnall A, Baker MR, David R, Lord S, Galna B, Burn DJ. Cholinergic dysfunction contributes to gait disturbance in early Parkinson’s disease. Brain 2012, 135(9), 2778-2787.
- Witham CL, Riddle CN, Baker MR, Baker SN. Contributions of descending and ascending pathways to corticomuscular coherence in humans. Journal of Physiology 2011, 589(15), 3789-3800.
- Baker MR, Fisher KM, Whittaker RG, Griffiths PG, Yu-Wai-Man P, Chinnery PF. Subclinical multisystem neurologic disease in "pure" OPA1 autosomal dominant optic atrophy. Neurology 2011, 77(13), 1309-1312.
- Cassidy AJ, Williams ER, Goldsmith P, Baker SN, Baker MR. The Man Who Could Not Walk Backward: A Unusual Presentation of Neuroferritinopathy. Movement Disorders 2011, 26(2), 362-364.
- Yu Wai Man P, Griffiths PG, Gorman GS, Lourenco CM, Wright AF, Auer-Grumbach M, Toscano A, Musumeci O, Valentino ML, Caporali L, Lamperti C, Tallaksen CM, Duffey P, Miller J, Whittaker RG, Baker MR, Jackson MJ, Clarke MP, Dhillon B, Czermin B, Stewart JD, Hudson G, Reynier P, Bonneau D, Marques W, Lenaers G, McFarland R, Taylor RW, Turnbull DM, Votruba M, Zeviani M, Carelli V, Bindoff LA, Horvath R, Amati-Bonneau P, Chinnery PF. Multi-system neurological disease is common in patients with OPA1 mutations. Brain 2010, 133(3), 771-786.
- Williams ER, Jones RE, Baker SN, Baker MR. Slow Orthostatic Tremor Can Persist When Walking Backward. Movement Disorders 2010, 25(6), 795-797.
- Fisher KM, Lai HM, Baker MR, Baker SN. Corticospinal activation confounds cerebellar effects of posterior fossa stimuli. Clinical Neurophysiology 2009, 120(12), 2109-2113.
- Baker M, Fisher K, Lai M, Duddy M, Baker S. Slow Orthostatic Tremor in Multiple Sclerosis. Movement Disorders 2009, 24(10), 1550-1553.
- Duddy M, Baker M. Stiff person syndrome. Frontiers of Neurology and Neuroscience 2009, 26, 147-165.
- Duddy ME, Baker MR. Harlequin's darker side. New England Journal of Medicine 2007, 357(20), E22-E22.
- Mitchell WK, Baker MR, Baker SN. Muscle responses to transcranial stimulation in man depend on background oscillatory activity. Journal of Physiology 2007, 583(2), 567-579.
- Baker MR, Edgley SA. Non-uniform olivocerebellar conduction time in the vermis of the rat cerebellum. Journal of Physiology 2006, 570(3), 501-506.
- Baker MR, Das M, Isaacs J, Fawcett PRW, Bates D. Treatment of stiff person syndrome with rituximab. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 2005, 76(7), 999-1001.
- Riddle CN, Baker MR, Baker SN. The effect of carbamazepine on human corticomuscular coherence. NeuroImage 2004, 22(1), 333-340.
- Baker MR, Baker SN. The effect of diazepam on motor cortical oscillations and corticomuscular coherence studied in man. Journal of Physiology 2003, 546, 931-942.
- Baker MR, Javid M, Edgley SA. Activation of cerebellar climbing fibres to rat cerebellar posterior lobe from motor cortical output pathways. The Journal of Physiology 2001, 536(3), 825-839.
- Baker MR, Gale DP, Edgley SA. Convergence of motor cortical, rubral and somatosensory inputs onto single inferior olivary cells in the ferret. Journal of Physiology 1999, 515P, 151-152.
- Baker MR, Edgley SA. Non-uniform olivocerebellar conduction time in the vermis of the rat cerebellum. Journal of Physiology 1999, 518P, 71.
- Aggelopoulos NC, Baker MR, Javid M, Edgley SA. Activation of climbing fibre pathways to the rat cerebellar cortex by cerebral corticofugal pathways. Journal of Physiology 1997, 504P, 113-114.
- Aggelopoulos NC, Baker MR, Edgley SA, Lidierth M. Corticospinal axon collaterals excite climbing fibre afferent pathways to the cat cerebellar cortex. Journal of Physiology 1996, 491P, 178.