Manual dexterity and corticospinal connectivity following unilateral section of the cervical spinal cord in the macaque monkey

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 381, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 307-319

  Galea, Mary P ^a   Darian Smith, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

hand; parallel processing; primate; spinal cord lesion; thumb finger opposition

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; LIMB MOVEMENT; MACACA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SPINAL CORD HEMISECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; DENERVATION; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MACACA NEMESTRINA; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THUMB; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0030896811     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19970512)381:3<307::AID-CNE4>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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