Duncan leads research development in Neurorehabilitation and Clinical Neuroscience and collaborates with several NHS Trusts. Members of his team have a variety of backgrounds ranging from motor neuroscience, exercise sciences, engineering, allied health professions and computer sciences.

Selected publications Turner DL, Ramos-Murguialday A, Birbaumer N, Hoffmann U, Luft A (2013) Neurophysiology of Robot-Mediated Training and Therapy: A Perspective for Future Use in Clinical Populations.Front Neurol. 2013 Nov 13;4:184. Review. Green , DA., Bowtell, J and Turner, DL (2008) Electrical percutanaeous tibial stimulation modulates within-a-breath respiratory drive in man. Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology. 161, 214. Mitchell, GS, Turner, DL, Henderson, DR and Foley, KT (2008) Spinal serotonin recptor activation modulates the exercise ventilatory response with increased dead space. Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology, 161, 230 Mileva, K., Green, DA & Turner, DL (2004) Modulation of cutaneous reflexes during cycling in man: EMG and biomechanical responses to sural nerve stimulation. Experimental Brain Research, 158, 450-464. Garland, S.W., Newham, D.J., & Turner, D.L. (2004) The amplitude of the slow component of oxygen uptake is related to muscle contractile properties. European Journal of Applied Physiology. 91,192-198. Turner, D.L. and Stewart J.D. (2004) Associative conditioning with leg cycling and inspiratory resistance enhances the exercise ventilatory response in humans. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 93, 333-339. Mileva, K. & Turner, D.L. (2003) Modulation of human ankle plantar and dorsi-flexor activity during bicycling with different pedal crank lengths. Experimental Brain Research, 152, 393-403. Jackson, S.W. & Turner, D.L. (2003) Prolonged muscle vibration reduces maximal voluntary knee extension performance in both the ipsilateral and the contralateral limb in man. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 88, 380-386. Sumners, D.P. & Turner, D.L. (2003) Long term modulation of the leg exercise ventilatory response is not elicited by hypercapnic arm exercise. Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology, 138,107-114. Turner, D.L. & Jackson, S.W. (2002) Resistive loaded breathing has a functional impact on isometric contractions in man. Neuroscience Letters, 326, 77-80. Turner, D.L. (2002). Expiratory resistive loaded breathing increases fluctuations of force production in submaximal isometric quadriceps contractions. Neuroscience Letters, 328, 13-16. Turner DL, Kmetova M & Winterbotham W. (2012) Robot-assisted motor rehabilitation for complex upper limb impairments following childhood stroke. Journal of Neurological Research 2, 65-68 [n/a] Turner, D.L. & Sumners, P. (2002) Associative conditioning of the exercise ventilatory response in humans Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology, 132, 159-168. Zhang, T. & Turner, D.L. (2001) A visuomotor reaction time task increases the irregularity and complexity of inspiratory airflow pattern in man. Neuroscience Letters, 297, 41-44. Turner DL, Tang X, Kmetova M & Winterbotham W (2012) Recovery of submaximal upper limb force production is correlated with better arm position control and motor impairment early after a stroke. Clin. Neurophysiology 123, 183-192 [2.7] Hunter T, Sacco P & Turner DL (2011) Changes in excitability of the motor cortex associated with internal model formation during intrinsic visuomotor learning in the upper arm. J. Behavioral and Brain Science 1, 140-152 [n/a] Cumberland Consensus Group 2007 (2009) The future of restorative neuroscience in stroke: Driving the translational research pipeline from basic science to rehabilitation of people after stroke. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair 23, 97-107 [I was a panel member for robotic devices section] [3.7] Jones DA, Turner DL, McIntyre DB & Newham DJ (2009) Energy turnover in relation to slowing of contractile properties during fatiguing contractions of the human anterior tibialis muscle. Journal of Physiology 587, 4329-4338. [5.2] Hunter T, Sacco P, Nitsche MA & Turner DL (2009) Modulation of internal model formation during force field-induced motor learning by anodal transcranial direct current stimulation of primary motor cortex. Journal of Physiology 587, 2949-2961. [5.2] Sacco P, Turner DL, Rothwell JC & Thickbroom GA (2009) Corticomotor responses to triple-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation. Brain Stimulation. 2, 36-40. [4.9] Turner DL., Sacco, P and Hunter, T (2008) Complex motor cortex control of muscle synergies underpin simple reaching tasks in robot-induced force fields. IET Journal of Control Theory and Application. UKCCC Meeting, Manchester 2008.