Proprioception and locomotor disorders

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 781-790

  Dietz, Volker ^a  

^a BALGRIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROPRIOCEPTION; REFLEX; REVIEW; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEEDBACK; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PARKINSON DISEASE; PROPRIOCEPTION; REFLEX; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 0036782177     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn939     Document Type: Article

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