Repeatedly pairing vagus nerve stimulation with a movement reorganizes primary motor cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2365-2374

  Porter, Benjamin A ^a   Khodaparast, Navid ^a   Fayyaz, Tabbassum ^a   Cheung, Ryan J ^a   Ahmed, Syed S ^a   Vrana, William A ^a   Rennaker, Robert L ^a   Kilgard, Michael P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

cortical plasticity; cortical reorganization; motor cortex; motor training; vagus nerve stimulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORELIMB; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; NERVE NET; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPETITION PRIMING; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 84866122635     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr316     Document Type: Article

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