More conditioning stimuli enhance synaptic plasticity in the human spinal cord

SC Fitzpatrick, BL Luu, JE Butler, JL Taylor - Clinical Neurophysiology, 2016 - Elsevier
… level in humans. Repeated pairing of TMS to the primary motor cortex with low-intensity …
stimulation to activate Ia afferents can induce spinal cord plasticity. An increase in ‘conditioned H-…

Operant conditioning of a spinal reflex can improve locomotion after spinal cord injury in humans

AK Thompson, FR Pomerantz… - Journal of …, 2013 - Soc Neuroscience
… 2 s, and at least 5 s had passed since the last stimulus, a stimulus pulse elicited the H-reflex
and M-wave. In conditioning trials, the background EMG graph was shown, and, in addition, …

Pathway‐specific plasticity in the human spinal cord

C Leukel, W Taube, S Beck… - European Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
… The facilitated conditioned H-reflexes therefore have to be caused by changes in … the
stimulation site and the α-motoneurons in the spinal cord. When tested with M1 conditioning, …

Motor control in the human spinal cord

MR Dimitrijevic, I Persy, C Forstner, H Kern… - Artificial …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
… paradigm of spinal cord stimulation in complete spinal cord injured … space over the posterior
structures of the lumbar cord (7). … jerk amplitudes by conditioning noxious stimulation applied …

Effects of electrically induced muscle contraction on flexion reflex in human spinal cord injury

M Knikou, BA Conway - Spinal cord, 2005 - nature.com
… test (CT) represents the interval between the conditioning stimulus train and the stimulus
For each subject and conditioning stimulation intensity, the conditioned ELFR and the LLFR …

Learning from the spinal cord: how the study of spinal cord plasticity informs our view of learning

JW Grau - Neurobiology of learning and memory, 2014 - Elsevier
… Gross anatomy of the spinal cord. (A) The human spine is covered by bony segments (…
used in studies of Pavlovian conditioning with electrophysiological stimulation, like the outcome …

Interlimb conditioning of lumbosacral spinally evoked motor responses after spinal cord injury

DA Atkinson, DG Sayenko, JM D'Amico, A Mink… - Clinical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Spinal cord injury (SCI) in humans may result from a variety of different injury mechanisms,
… Potentiated responses were obtained in response to conditioning stimuli at 100 ms and110 …

H‐reflex conditioning during locomotion in people with spinal cord injury

AK Thompson, JR Wolpaw - The Journal of physiology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… In animals and humans, an operant conditioning protocol can strengthen or weaken the …
at least 5 s had passed since the last stimulus, a stimulus pulse was delivered. For control or …

Neurocontrol of movement in humans with spinal cord injury

MR Dimitrijevic, SM Danner, W Mayr - Artificial organs, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
… mostly studied by applying single stimuli or conditioning test paradigms. The emphasis in …
We examined repetitive stimulation in spinal cord injury subjects and showed regularly elicited …

Restoring walking after spinal cord injury: operant conditioning of spinal reflexes can help

AK Thompson, JR Wolpaw - The Neuroscientist, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
… nerve stimulation or functional electrical stimulation) or cortex (repetitive transcranial magnetic
stimulation… Indeed, initial studies in animals and humans with incomplete SCI indicate that …