Quantification of motor cortex activity and full-body biomechanics during unconstrained locomotion

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 2959-2969

  Prilutsky, Boris I ^a   Sirota, Mikhail G ^b   Gregor, Robert J ^a   Beloozerova, Irina N ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CAT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; KINEMATICS; KINETICS; LIMB; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; WALKING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CATS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FORELIMB; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURONS; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 24944439806     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00704.2004     Document Type: Article

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