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Late Professor of Ophthalmology, Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States.
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Excitabilité Nerveuse et Thérapeutique, Faculté de Médecine de Créteil, Université Paris-Est-Créteil, Hôpital Henri Mondor, Créteil, France; Service de Physiologie-Explorations Fonctionnelles, Hôpital Henri Mondor, Créteil, France. Electronic address: jean-pascal.lefaucheur@aphp.fr.
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Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States; Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
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2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States; Department of Psychology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States. Electronic address: rtknight@berkeley.edu.
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2 publications dans cette catégorie
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Department of Medico-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, Sapienza University of Rome Polo Pontino, Corso della Repubblica, 79-04100, Latina, Italy.
Publications dans "Recrutement neurophysiologique" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Instituto de Fisiologia-Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health, Hospital de Santa Maria-CHLN, Lisbon, Portugal.
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Section of Applied Consciousness Sciences, Department for Psychosomatic Medicine, University Hospital Regensburg, 93053 Regensburg, Germany.
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Section of Applied Consciousness Sciences, Department for Psychosomatic Medicine, University Hospital Regensburg, 93053 Regensburg, Germany.
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, USA.
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Neuroscience Institute and Department of Neurology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York University, New York, NY 10016, USA; email: gyorgy.buzsaki@nyulangone.org.
Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA.
Publications dans "Recrutement neurophysiologique" :
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Department of Neurosciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA.
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Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
Center for Biomedical Imaging and Neuromodulation, Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, New York 10962, USA.
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Department of Neurology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, United States. Electronic address: burgesr@ccf.org.
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Department of Medical Education, University of Melbourne.
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College of Health & Biomedicine, Victoria University, Melbourne.
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College of Health & Biomedicine, Victoria University, Melbourne.
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College of Health & Biomedicine, Victoria University, Melbourne.
Department of Pain Management, Greenwich Hospital, Greenwich, Australia.
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Department of Biological Sciences, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, New York 12222, USA bszaro@albany.edu.
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Ezelsveldlaan 2, 2611 rv, Delft, the Netherlands.
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Ezelsveldlaan 2, 2611 rv, Delft, the Netherlands.
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Despite the perceived importance of antagonist muscle activity, it is unknown if motor unit (MU) behavior at recruitment differs when a muscle acts as an antagonist versus agonist. Fourteen healthy pa...
Aging is associated with neuromuscular system changes that may have implications for the recruitment and firing behaviors of motor units (MUs). In previous studies, we observed that young adults recru...
It is unclear whether chronically training close to volitional failure influences motor unit recruitment strategies during fatigue....
We compared resistance training to near volitional failure...
Nineteen resistance-trained adults (11 males, 8 females) underwent 5 weeks (3×/week) of either low repetitions-in-reserve (RIR; 0-1 RIR) or high RIR training (4-6 RIR). Before and after the interventi...
Both training groups improved time-to-task failure (mean change = 43.3 s, 24.0%), with no significant differences between low and high RIR training groups (low RIR = 28.7%, high RIR = 19.4%). Our fati...
Both low and high RIR training improved time-to-task failure, but resulted in comparable motor unit recruitment during fatiguing contractions. Our findings indicate that both low and high RIR training...
Approaches for validating motor unit firing times following surface electromyographic (EMG) signal decomposition with the precision decomposition III (PDIII) algorithm have not been agreed upon. Two a...
Wide-pulse high-frequency neuromuscular electrical stimulation (WPHF NMES) can generate a progressive increase in tetanic force through reflexive recruitment of motor units, called extra force. This p...
The purpose of this investigation was to compare the quality of neural drive and recruited quadriceps motor units' (MU) action potential amplitude (MUAP...
Fourteen individuals with ACLR and 13 matched controls performed trapezoidal knee extensor contractions at 30%, 50%, 70%, and 100% of their maximal voluntary isometric contraction (MVIC). Decompositio...
Individuals with ACLR demonstrated lower MVIC torque in the involved limb compared to uninvolved limb. There were no differences in H-reflex or CAR between groups or limbs. The ACLR involved limb demo...
These results suggest that persistent strength deficits following ACLR may be attributable to a diminished quadriceps motor neuron pool and inability to upregulate the firing rate of recruited MUs....
In two papers dated 1928 to 1929 in The Journal of Physiology, Edgar Adrian and Detlev Bronk described recordings from motor nerve and muscle fibres. The recordings from motor nerve fibres required pr...
Motor unit recruitment and firing rate patterns of the vastus lateralis (VL) have not been compared between sexes during moderate- and high-intensity contraction intensities. Additionally, the influen...
Eleven males and 11 females performed 40% and 70% maximal voluntary contractions (MVCs). Surface electromyographic (EMG) signals recorded from the VL were decomposed. Recruitment thresholds (RTs), MU ...
There were no sex-related differences in MU characteristics at 40% MVC. At 70% MVC, males exhibited greater slopes (p = 0.002) for the MUAP...
Both sexes exhibited an inverse relationship between MU firing rates and recruitment thresholds. However, the sex-related differences in MU recruitment and firing rate patterns and N-EMG...
Juvenile fibromyalgia (JFM) is a chronic pain syndrome predominantly affecting adolescent girls. Resilience may be a protective factor in coping with pain, reducing affective burden, and promoting pos...
Forty-one girls with JFM and 40 pain-free adolescents completed a resting-state fMRI assessment and self-report questionnaires. We used clustering analyses to group JFM participants based on resilienc...
The higher resilience JFM group had less affective (T=4.03; p<.001) but similar core somatic symptoms (T=1.05; p=.302) than the lower resilience JFM group. They had increased whole-brain (T's>3.90, pF...
JFM participants with higher resilience were protected affectively but not in core somatic symptoms. Greater resilience was accompanied by higher signal integration within the DMN, a network central t...
Movement is a central behavior of daily living; thus lost or compromised movement due to disease, injury, or amputation causes enormous loss of productivity and quality of life. While prosthetics have...