Chapter 17 The education and re-education of the spinal cord

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 157, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Wolpaw, Jonathan R ^a  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

behavior; conditioning; learning; memory; plasticity; spinal cord; spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; ANIMAL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR SKILLS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 33749630482     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(06)57017-7     Document Type: Review

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