This paper reviews some aspects of locomotor plasticity after spinalisation and after
peripheral nerve lesions. Adult cats can recover spontaneous hindlimb locomotion on a …

Substantial scientific progress has been made in the past 50 years in delineating many of
the biological mechanisms involved in the primary and secondary injuries following trauma …

The long-standing belief that the spinal cord serves merely as a conduit for information
traveling to and from the brain is changing. Over the past decade, research has shown that …

Prior work has demonstrated that spinal cord neurons, isolated from the brain through a
spinal transection, can support learning. Spinally transected rats given legshock whenever …

Prior research has shown that a conditioned antinociceptive response can be established in
spinalized rats by pairing stimulation to one hind leg (the conditioned stimulus, or CS) with …

Effects of forward and backward conditioned-unconditioned stimulus (CS-US) intervals on
classical conditioning of the flexion reflex were examined in a cat spinal preparation …

Single-unit recordings from 312 units of lamina I-VII of the lumbar spinal cord of
unanesthetized, decerebrate, T8 spinal cats were used to determine the somatotopic and …

Bloedel and associates 18 recently claimed to have established conditioned eyeblink
responses in the acute decerebrate, decerebellate rabbit. Their training procedure was …

In the absence of brain input, spinal systems can adapt to new environmental relations. For
example, spinally transected rats given a legshock each time the leg is extended exhibit a …

Spinalized rats that receive shock when 1 hind limb is extended (contingent shock) exhibit
an increase in flexion duration, a simple form of instrumental learning. Rats that receive …