A review on locomotor training after spinal cord injury: reorganization of spinal neuronal circuits and recovery of motor function

AC Smith, M Knikou - Neural plasticity, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Locomotor training is a classic rehabilitation approach utilized with the aim of improving
sensorimotor function and walking ability in people with spinal cord injury (SCI). Recent …

Spinal rhythm generation by step-induced feedback and transcutaneous posterior root stimulation in complete spinal cord–injured individuals

K Minassian, US Hofstoetter… - … and neural repair, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Background. The human lumbosacral spinal circuitry can generate rhythmic motor output in
response to different types of inputs after motor-complete spinal cord injury. Objective. To …

[HTML][HTML] Uniqueness of human running coordination: the integration of modern and ancient evolutionary innovations

J Kiely, DJ Collins - Frontiers in psychology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Running is a pervasive activity across human cultures and a cornerstone of contemporary
health, fitness, and sporting activities. Yet for the overwhelming predominance of human …

Non-invasive brain stimulation and robot-assisted gait training after incomplete spinal cord injury: A randomized pilot study

R Raithatha, C Carrico, ES Powell… - …, 2016 - content.iospress.com
BACKGROUND: Locomotor training with a robot-assisted gait orthosis (LT-RGO) and
transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) are interventions that can significantly enhance …

Spinal microcircuits comprising dI3 interneurons are necessary for motor functional recovery following spinal cord transection

TV Bui, N Stifani, T Akay, RM Brownstone - Elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
The spinal cord has the capacity to coordinate motor activities such as locomotion. Following
spinal transection, functional activity can be regained, to a degree, following motor training …

Total brain death and the integration of the body required of a human being

P Lee - The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
I develop and refine an argument for the total brain death criterion of death previously
advanced by Germain Grisez and me: A human being is essentially a rational animal, and …

The brain dead patient is still sentient: A further reply to Patrick Lee and Germain Grisez

NPG Austriaco - The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Patrick Lee and Germain Grisez have argued that the total brain dead patient is still
dead because the integrated entity that remains is not even an animal, not only because he …

A neuromechanical modeling of spinal cord injury locomotor system for simulating the rehabilitation effects

M Abedi, MM Moghaddam, M Firoozabadi - Biocybernetics and Biomedical …, 2016 - Elsevier
Gait recovering after spinal cord injury (SCI) is a regular attempt in neurorehabilitation. For
this purpose, various clinical techniques have been proposed until now. However, the …

History-dependent changes in the recovery process of the middle latency cutaneous reflex gain after ankle sprain injury

G Futatsubashi, S Sasada, H Ohtsuka, S Suzuki… - European journal of …, 2016 - Springer
Purpose We previously reported that suppressive middle latency cutaneous reflexes (MLRs)
in the peroneus longus (PL) are exaggerated in subjects with chronic ankle instability, and …

Вплив обмеження спонтанної локомоторної активності на перебіг синдрому спастичності за умови експериментальної травми спинного мозку та імплантації …

VI Kozyavkin, VI Tsymbaliuk… - Буковинський …, 2016 - e-bmv.bsmu.edu.ua
Анотація Мета: дослідити вплив імплантації NeuroGelTM, асоційованого з
нейрогенними стовбуровими клітинами (НСК), у поєднанні з лібералізацією спонтанної …