Reflex conditioning: A new strategy for improving motor function after spinal cord injury

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1198, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages

  Chen, Xiang Yang ^a   Chen, Yi ^a   Wang, Yu ^a   Thompson, Aiko ^b   Carp, Jonathan S ^a   Segal, Richard L ^c   Wolpaw, Jonathan R ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b HELEN HAYES HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

H reflex; learning and memory; locomotion; plasticity; reflex conditioning; rehabilitation; spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CONDITIONED REFLEX; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; REGENERATION; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL REFLEX; WALKING; ANIMAL; CONVALESCENCE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REFLEX;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR SKILLS; RATS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REFLEX; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 77954931512     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05565.x     Document Type: Review

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