Spinal Cord Injury: Present and Future Therapeutic Devices and Prostheses

Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 147-162

  Giszter, Simon F ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

motor function; neuroprostheses; plasticity; rehabilitation; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONTROL SYSTEM; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; LIMB MOVEMENT; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPROSTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; SPINAL GANGLION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 37349075429     PISSN: 19337213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nurt.2007.10.062     Document Type: Article

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