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Mapping Of Cortical Motor Reorganization In Spinal Cord Injury, Leonid Rozhkov
Mapping Of Cortical Motor Reorganization In Spinal Cord Injury, Leonid Rozhkov
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The annual incidence of spinal cord injury (SCI), not including those who die at the scene of the accident, is approximately 10,000 new cases in the United States. SCI, in its best outcome, may partially and temporarily disconnect the spinal cord from the brain. Some neuronal pathways remain intact in most S CI individuals, whose recovery depends on the utilization of the surviving connections. There is a change in the control of voluntary movements of the extremities by the cerebral cortex of the brain following spinal cord injury.
The technology of high-resolution EEG co-registered with MRI was applied to non-invasively …