Spinal cord plasticity is a possible tool for rehabilitation... this article is adapted with permission from Plasticity in the Central Nervous System: Operant Conditioning of the Spinal Stretch Reflex. Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation, Segal RL. Volume 3, issue 4, pages 76-87, as well as 1997 Aspen Publishers, Inc.
The spinal cord of both nonhuman and human primate subjects exhibits the potential for plasticity. The spinal stretch reflexes (SSRs, monosynaptic and possibly polysynaptic) can be conditioned to be smaller (downtrained) or larger (uptrained) in both monkeys and humans. Operant conditioning of the t...
| Publicado en: | Neurology Report Vol. 22; no. 2; pp. 54 - 61 |
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| Formato: | tables/charts Journal Article |
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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
1998 May
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| Acceso en línea: | Ver este registro en EBSCOhost |