Sensorimotor anatomy of gait, balance, and falls

CD MacKinnon - Handbook of clinical neurology, 2018 - Elsevier
The review demonstrates that control of posture and locomotion is provided by systems
across the caudal-to-rostral extent of the neuraxis. A common feature of the neuroanatomic …

[HTML][HTML] And yet it moves: recovery of volitional control after spinal cord injury

G Taccola, D Sayenko, P Gad, Y Gerasimenko… - Progress in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Preclinical and clinical neurophysiological and neurorehabilitation research has generated
rather surprising levels of recovery of volitional sensory-motor function in persons with …

Transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation induces temporary attenuation of spasticity in individuals with spinal cord injury

US Hofstoetter, B Freundl, SM Danner… - Journal of …, 2020 - liebertpub.com
Epidural spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is currently regarded as a breakthrough procedure for
enabling movement after spinal cord injury (SCI), yet one of its original applications was for …

Structural basis for the rescue of hyperexcitable cells by the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis drug Riluzole

D Hollingworth, F Thomas, DA Page, MA Fouda… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Neuronal hyperexcitability is a key element of many neurodegenerative disorders including
the motor neuron disease Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), where it occurs associated …

Astrocytes expressing mutant SOD1 and TDP43 trigger motoneuron death that is mediated via sodium channels and nitroxidative stress

F Rojas, N Cortes, S Abarzua, A Dyrda… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal paralytic disorder caused by dysfunction and
degeneration of motor neurons. Multiple disease-causing mutations, including in the genes …

Cav1.3 calcium channels are full-range linear amplifiers of firing frequencies in lateral DA SN neurons

J Shin, L Kovacheva, D Thomas, S Stojanovic… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The low-threshold L-type calcium channel Cav1. 3 accelerates the pacemaker rate in the
heart, but its functional role for the extended dynamic range of neuronal firing is still …

Mutant SOD1-expressing astrocytes release toxic factors that trigger motoneuron death by inducing hyperexcitability

E Fritz, P Izaurieta, A Weiss, FR Mir… - Journal of …, 2013 - journals.physiology.org
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating paralytic disorder caused by dysfunction
and degeneration of motoneurons starting in adulthood. Recent studies using cell or animal …

Driven to decay: excitability and synaptic abnormalities in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

MJ Fogarty - Brain research bulletin, 2018 - Elsevier
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the most common motor neuron (MN) disease and is
clinically characterised by the death of corticospinal motor neurons (CSMNs), spinal and …

Silencing strategies for therapy of SOD1-mediated ALS

B van Zundert, RH Brown Jr - Neuroscience Letters, 2017 - Elsevier
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is an adult-onset, lethal, paralytic disorder caused by the
degeneration of motor neurons. Our understanding of this disease has been greatly …

Delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS): the repeated bout effect and chemotherapy-induced axonopathy may help explain the dying-back mechanism in …

B Sonkodi - Brain sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) is hypothesized to be caused by glutamate
excitotoxicity-induced acute compression axonopathy of the sensory afferents in the muscle …