Versatile robotic interface to evaluate, enable and train locomotion and balance after neuromotor disorders

Nature Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1142-1147

  Dominici, Nadia ^a,b   Keller, Urs ^c   Vallery, Heike ^c,d   Friedli, Lucia ^a,b   Van Den Brand, Rubia ^a,b   Starkey, Michelle L ^a,e   Musienko, Pavel ^a,b,f   Riener, Robert ^c,e   Courtine, Grégoire ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Brain Mind Institute   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^e BALGRIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^f PAVLOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CLIMBING; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROPROSTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ROBOTICS; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STROKE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WALKING;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURAL PROSTHESES; POSTURAL BALANCE; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; ROBOTICS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STROKE;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 84863718270     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: 1546170X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm.2845     Document Type: Article

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