Merging of healthy motor modules predicts reduced locomotor performance and muscle coordination complexity post-stroke

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 844-857

  Clark, David J ^a,b   Ting, Lena H ^c   Zajac, Felix E ^d   Neptune, Richard R ^e   Kautz, Steven A ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Stanford University   (United States)

^e The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; LEG MUSCLE; LOCOMOTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEUROMODULATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WALKING; WALKING SPEED;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; LEG; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR SKILLS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURAL BALANCE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STROKE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 76649138271     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00825.2009     Document Type: Article

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