Sentences with phrase «spinal locomotion»

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In most cases of spinal cord injury, the loss of this link from the brain to the locomotion center causes problems with walking.

The research group came up with bypassing the functioning brain and locomotion center with the computer to compensate lost pathways as a way to enable individuals with spinal cord injury to regain walking ability.

Neural networks in the spinal cord, locomotion center are capable of producing rhythmic movements, such as swimming and walking, even when isolated from the brain.

Moreover, some behaviors such as simple reflexes and basic locomotion, can be executed under spinal cord control alone.

Early in his career Grillner showed how these circuits in the mammalian spinal cord generate periodic motor commands for the rhythmic movements involved in locomotion - a process that demands the coordination of dozens of different muscles.

CSF - contacting neurons regulate locomotion by relaying mechanical stimuli to spinal circuits.

This type of neuroprosthesis works by engaging healthy spinal circuits downstream from the injury site, producing step - like locomotion in the hind limbs when stimulation is applied.

This was used to restore locomotion in rats sustaining paralyzing spinal cord injury.

The discovery of motor pattern generators, the neural network's underlying movements, in the spinal cord is already being used to re-establish locomotion in people paralyzed after spinal cord injury.»

By combining cell physiology with pharmacology, behavioral analysis, and computer modeling, he has deciphered the existence of a central pattern generator for locomotion in the spinal cord, thereby linking circuit function to behavior.

The study is a breakthrough for our understanding of spinal cord neuronal circuitry and its control of locomotion in vertebrates.

Early on, he demonstrated that networks within the mammalian spinal cord can produce the detailed motor pattern of locomotion involving the coordination of hundreds of different muscles.