Pattern generators in locomotion: Implications for recovery of walking after spinal cord injury

Topics in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 82-96

  Harkema, S J ^a   Dobkin, B H ^a   Edgerton, V R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Central pattern generation; Clinical trials; Functional neuroimaging; Locomotion; Motor learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEURORADIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPINAL CORD INJURY; WALKING; WEIGHT BEARING;

EID: 0033696964     PISSN: 10820744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1310/E3W4-PCN9-V5FY-900A     Document Type: Review

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