Electrical stimulation and motor recovery

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 429-446

  Young, Wise ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Central pattern generator (CPG); Functional electrical stimulation (FES); Motor recovery; Spinal cord injury (SCI); Synaptic formation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATOR; EPIDURAL SPACE; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; LONG TERM MEMORY; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOTOR RECOVERY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SACRAL NERVE STIMULATION; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; SYNAPTOGENESIS; ANIMAL; CONVALESCENCE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

ANIMALIA; CORDEAUXIA EDULIS; RATTUS;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR CORTEX; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 84927138434     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/096368915X686904     Document Type: Review

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