Motor potentials evoked by transcranial magnetic stimulation: interpreting a simple measure of a complex system

DA Spampinato, J Ibanez, L Rocchi… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a non‐invasive technique that is increasingly
used to study the human brain. One of the principal outcome measures is the motor‐evoked …

[HTML][HTML] Exciting complexity: the role of motor circuit elements in ALS pathophysiology

ZI Gunes, VWY Kan, XQ Ye, S Liebscher - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal disease, characterized by the degeneration of
both upper and lower motor neurons. Despite decades of research, we still to date lack a …

[HTML][HTML] Distinct subtypes of proprioceptive dorsal root ganglion neurons regulate adaptive proprioception in mice

H Wu, C Petitpré, P Fontanet, A Sharma… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Proprioceptive neurons (PNs) are essential for the proper execution of all our movements by
providing muscle sensory feedback to the central motor network. Here, using deep single …

[HTML][HTML] Spinal inhibitory interneurons: gatekeepers of sensorimotor pathways

NJ Stachowski, KJ Dougherty - International journal of molecular sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
The ability to sense and move within an environment are complex functions necessary for
the survival of nearly all species. The spinal cord is both the initial entry site for peripheral …

[HTML][HTML] Repeated transspinal stimulation decreases soleus H-reflex excitability and restores spinal inhibition in human spinal cord injury

M Knikou, LM Murray - PLoS One, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Transcutaneous spinal cord or transspinal stimulation over the thoracolumbar enlargement,
the spinal location of motoneurons innervating leg muscles, modulates neural circuits …

[HTML][HTML] Newly regenerated axons via scaffolds promote sub-lesional reorganization and motor recovery with epidural electrical stimulation

AM Siddiqui, R Islam, CA Cuellar… - Npj Regenerative …, 2021 - nature.com
Here, we report the effect of newly regenerated axons via scaffolds on reorganization of
spinal circuitry and restoration of motor functions with epidural electrical stimulation (EES) …

[HTML][HTML] Post-stroke treatment with neuromuscular functional electrostimulation of antagonistic muscles and kinesiotherapy evaluated with electromyography and …

J Huber, K Kaczmarek, K Leszczyńska… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The aim of this study was to determine the sustained influence of personalized
neuromuscular functional electrical stimulation (NMFES) combined with kinesiotherapy …

Heksor: the central nervous system substrate of an adaptive behaviour

JR Wolpaw, A Kamesar - The Journal of Physiology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past half‐century, the largely hardwired central nervous system (CNS) of 1970 has
become the ubiquitously plastic CNS of today, in which change is the rule not the exception …

[HTML][HTML] The association between muscle architecture and muscle spindle abundance

RWP Kissane, JP Charles, RW Banks, KT Bates - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Across the human body, skeletal muscles have a broad range of biomechanical roles that
employ complex proprioceptive control strategies to successfully execute a desired …

Investigating the roles of reflexes and central pattern generators in the control and modulation of human locomotion using a physiologically plausible …

A Di Russo, D Stanev, A Sabnis… - Journal of neural …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Studying the neural components regulating movement in human locomotion is
obstructed by the inability to perform invasive experimental recording in the human neural …