Contributions of skin and muscle afferent input to movement sense in the human hand

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1879-1888

  Cordo, Paul J ^a   Horn, Jean Louis ^b   Künster, Daniela ^c   Cherry, Anne ^d   Bratt, Alex ^e   Gurfinkel, Victor ^a  

^a Oregon Health and Science University Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Cutaneous; Muscle spindle; Proprioception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINGER; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE SPINDLE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; SKIN SENSATION; VELOCITY;

ADULT; FINGER JOINT; HAND; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PROPRIOCEPTION; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SKIN;

EID: 79955160547     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00201.2010     Document Type: Article

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