Université de Fribourg

Pathway-specific plasticity in the human spinal cord

Leukel, Christian ; Taube, Wolfgang ; Beck, Sandra ; Schubert, Martin

In: European Journal of Neuroscience, 2012, vol. 35, no. 10, p. 1622-1629

The aim of the present study was to artificially induce plasticity in the human spinal cord and evaluate whether this plasticity is pathway specific. For this purpose, a technique called paired associative stimulation (PAS) was applied. Volleys evoked by transcranial magnetic stimulation over the primary motor cortex and peripheral nerve stimulation of the nervus tibialis in the popliteal...