Recruitment of upper-limb motoneurons with epidural electrical stimulation of the cervical spinal cord

Autor: Nathan Greiner, Beatrice Barra, Giuseppe Schiavone, Henri Lorach, Nicholas James, Sara Conti, Melanie Kaeser, Florian Fallegger, Simon Borgognon, Stéphanie Lacour, Jocelyne Bloch, Grégoire Courtine, Marco Capogrosso
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 12, Iss 1, Pp 1-19 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-20703-1
Popis: The efficacy of epidural electrical stimulation (EES) to engage arm muscles and improve movement after spinal cord injury is still unclear. Here, the authors investigated how EES can recruit upper-limb motor neurons by combining computational modelling with experiments in non-human primates.
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