Corticospinal neuroprostheses to restore locomotion after spinal cord injury

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 21-29

  Borton, David ^a   Bonizzato, Marco ^a   Beauparlant, Janine ^a   DiGiovanna, Jack ^a   Moraud, Eduardo M ^a,b   Wenger, Nikolaus ^a   Musienko, Pavel ^a   Minev, Ivan R ^a   Lacour, Stéphanie P ^a   Millán, José del R ^a   Micera, Silvestro ^a,c   Courtine, Grégoire ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain machine interface; Neuromotor rehabilitation; Neuroprosthetics; Spinal interface

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CORTICOSPINAL NEUROPROSTHESIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; NEUROPROSTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL NEUROPROSTHESIS; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HINDLIMB; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOTONEURON; NEUROMODULATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONVALESCENCE; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; VERTEBRA;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; NEURAL PROSTHESES; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RATS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 84892673750     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: 18728111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2013.10.001     Document Type: Review

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