Involvement of the corticospinal tract in the control of human gait

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 192, Issue , 2011, Pages 181-197

  Barthélemy, Dorothy ^a   Grey, Michael J ^b   Nielsen, Jens Bo ^c   Bouyer, Laurent ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^e CENTER FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH IN REHABILITATION AND SOCIAL INTEGRATION   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coherence; Imaging; Locomotion; Motor cortex; Spinal cord injury; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIOMECHANICS; BOOK; CONVALESCENCE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; GAIT; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; PARALYSIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STROKE; TRAINING; TRANSCRANIAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREADMILL EXERCISE; WALKING;

EID: 79960277046     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: 18757855     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53355-5.00012-9     Document Type: Chapter

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