NeuroMap System

Development, Motor Learning and Rehabilitation

Objective: Identify patterns of dynamic motor unit activity during functional opening and closing of the hand.

Development, Motor Learning and Rehabilitation
Patterns of Dynamic Motor Unit Activity

Results

Characteristic patterns of coordinated activity across different phases of the drinking task highlight the neural control mechanisms that drive the firing behavior of motor units across different muscles to produce natural movements and activities of daily living.

Other References

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Hu et al. Altered motor unit discharge patterns in paretic muscles of stroke survivors assessed using surface electromyography. J Neural Eng 2016.

McManus et al. Muscle fatigue increases beta-band coherence between the firing times of simultaneously active motor units in the first dorsal interosseous muscle. J Neurophysiol 2016.

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