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Walking is a complex process that involves both automatic processes and conscious control. The dysfunction of walking can have multiple causes within the motor cortex, brain stem, spinal cord, or muscles. Researchers at the Paris Brain Institute are studying forward propulsion in walking.
Walking is a complex mechanism involving both automatic processes and conscious control. Its dysfunction can have multiple, sometimes extremely subtle causes, within the motor cortex, brain stem, spinal cord, or muscles. At Paris Brain Institute, Martin Carbo-Tano, Mathilde Lapoix, and their colleagues in the “Spinal Sensory Signaling” team, led by Claire Wyart (Inserm), have focused on a specific component of locomotion: forward propulsion.