Restorative Neurology of Spinal Cord Injury

Milan R. Dimitrijevic, MD, PhD, Principle Investigator of Foundation for Movement Recovery, Oslo, Norway; Emeritus Professor, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX. Byron A. Kakulas, MD, FRACP, FRCPA, FRCPath, Medical Director, Australian Neuromuscular Research Institute, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia. W. Barry McKay, BS, Research Scientist, Norton Neuroscience Institute, Louisville, Kentucky. Gerta Vrbová, PhD, Emeritus Professor, Division of Developmental. Neuroscience, University College London; Visiting Professor, Royal Veterinary College, London, United Kingdom.

Foreword ; Preface ; Chapter 1 - Residual motor function after spinal cord injury ; Chapter 2 - Neurophysiological principles for the assessment of residual motor control below the spinal cord injury in humans ; Chapter 3 - Restorative neurology of motor control after spinal cord injury: clinical practice ; Chapter 4 - Neural control of locomotion ; Chapter 5 - Summary of strategies used to repair the injured spinal cord ; Chapter 6 - The reconstructive neurosurgery of spinal injury ; Chapter 7 - Criteria for biological interventions for spinal cord injury ; Chapter 8 - Neurophysiological assessment of human motor control and changes caused by spinal cord injury ; Chapter 9 - Neurophysiologic monitoring of the human spinal cord functional integrity during surgical interventions ; Chapter 10 - Transcutaneous lumbar posterior root stimulation for motor control studies and modification of motor activity after spinal cord injury ; Epilogue ; Appendix I - A manual for the neurophysiological assessment of motor control: The Brain Motor Control Assessment (BMCA) Protocolpages ; Appendix II - Academic environment for the development of human motor control in Ljubljana