| Budget Amount *help |
¥18,720,000 (Direct Cost: ¥14,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,320,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥3,380,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥780,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥3,380,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥780,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥11,960,000 (Direct Cost: ¥9,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,760,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The final goal of this study is to reveal both structure and function of locomotor spinal neural circuits in human. To aproach this goal, passive stepping in water, functional spinal map, and multisegmental motor responses were studied. The results showed that load information might play an important role to facilitate spinal neural circuits(SNC), while somatosensory information related to lower limb kinematics might have inhibitory effect on the SNC. The functional spinal map suggested that the lowre limb muscular activities might be provided from the spinal locomotor circuits that span widely from the lower thoracic levels to the higher lumber level.
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