The effective neural drive to muscles is the common synaptic input to motor neurons

D Farina, F Negro, JL Dideriksen - The Journal of physiology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Key points Despite the non‐linear property of individual motor neurons, the pool of motor
neurons linearizes the relation between their common synaptic input and the neural drive to …

Identification of common synaptic inputs to motor neurons from the rectified electromyogram

D Farina, F Negro, N Jiang - The Journal of physiology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Key points• Oscillatory drives at the input of a pool of motor neurons are transmitted to the
motor neuron output (neural drive to the muscle) in an approximately linear way if these …

Beta band corticomuscular drive reflects muscle coordination strategies

A Reyes, CM Laine, JJ Kutch… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
During force production, hand muscle activity is known to be coherent with activity in primary
motor cortex, specifically in the beta-band (15–30 Hz) frequency range. It is not clear …

The phase difference between neural drives to antagonist muscles in essential tremor is associated with the relative strength of supraspinal and afferent input

JA Gallego, JL Dideriksen, A Holobar… - Journal of …, 2015 - Soc Neuroscience
The pathophysiology of essential tremor (ET), the most common movement disorder, is not
fully understood. We investigated which factors determine the variability in the phase …

A critical period of corticomuscular and EMG–EMG coherence detection in healthy infants aged 9–25 weeks

A Ritterband‐Rosenbaum, A Herskind… - The Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Key points The early postnatal development of functional corticospinal connections in
human infants is not fully clarified. Corticospinal drive to upper and lower limb muscle shows …

Coherence of the surface EMG and common synaptic input to motor neurons

JL Dideriksen, F Negro, D Falla… - Frontiers in Human …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Coherence between electromyographic (EMG) signals is often used to infer the common
synaptic input to populations of motor neurons. This analysis, however, may be limited due …

EEG hyperscanning in motor rehabilitation: a position paper

MR Short, JC Hernandez-Pavon, A Jones… - … of neuroengineering and …, 2021 - Springer
Studying the human brain during interpersonal interaction allows us to answer many
questions related to motor control and cognition. For instance, what happens in the brain …

[HTML][HTML] Magnification of visual feedback modulates corticomuscular and intermuscular coherences differently in young and elderly adults

T Watanabe, I Nojima, T Mima, H Sugiura, H Kirimoto - NeuroImage, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Beta-band (15–30​ Hz) corticomuscular and intermuscular coherences are
important markers of the corticospinal interaction. The purpose of this study was to …

Eccentric muscle damage increases intermuscular coherence during a fatiguing isometric contraction

JG Semmler, SA Ebert, J Amarasena - Acta Physiologica, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of eccentric muscle damage on
muscle activation patterns and intermuscular coherence during a fatiguing isometric …

Intermuscular coherence between homologous muscles during dynamic and static movement periods of bipedal squatting

R Kenville, T Maudrich, C Vidaurre… - Journal of …, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
Coordination of functionally coupled muscles is a key aspect of movement execution.
Demands on coordinative control increase with the number of involved muscles and joints …