Imperial College London
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ProfessorPeterEllaway

Faculty of Medicine, Department of Brain Sciences

Emeritus Professor of Physiology
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 8398 6639p.ellaway

 
 
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Lab BlockCharing Cross Campus

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Publications

Citation

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@article{Curt:2012:10.1016/B978-0-444-52137-8.00004-8,
author = {Curt, A and Ellaway, PH},
doi = {10.1016/B978-0-444-52137-8.00004-8},
journal = {Handb Clin Neurol},
pages = {63--75},
title = {Clinical neurophysiology in the prognosis and monitoring of traumatic spinal cord injury.},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-52137-8.00004-8},
volume = {109},
year = {2012}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Preclinical studies for the repair of spinal cord injury (SCI) and potential therapies for accessing the inherent plasticity of the central nervous system (CNS) to promote recovery of function are currently moving into the translational stage. These emerging clinical trials of therapeutic interventions for the repair of SCI require improved assessment techniques and quantitative outcome measures to supplement the American Spinal Injuries Association (ASIA) Impairment Scales. This chapter attempts to identify those electrophysiological techniques that show the most promise for provision of objective and quantitative measures of sensory, motor, and autonomic function in SCI. Reviewed are: (1) somatosensory evoked potentials, including dermatomal somatosensory evoked potentials, and the electrical perceptual threshold as tests of the dorsal (posterior) column pathway; (2) laser evoked potentials and contact heat evoked potentials as tests of the anterior spinothalamic tract; (3) motor evoked potentials in limb muscles, in response to transcranial magnetic stimulation of the motor cortex as tests of the corticospinal tract, and the application of the technique to assessment of trunk and sphincter muscles; and (4) the sympathetic skin response as a test of spinal cord access to the sympathetic chain.
AU  - Curt,A
AU  - Ellaway,PH
DO  - 10.1016/B978-0-444-52137-8.00004-8
EP  - 75
PY  - 2012///
SN  - 0072-9752
SP  - 63
TI  - Clinical neurophysiology in the prognosis and monitoring of traumatic spinal cord injury.
T2  - Handb Clin Neurol
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-52137-8.00004-8
UR  - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23098706
VL  - 109
ER  -
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