Input-output properties and gain changes in the human corticospinal pathway

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 329-338

  Devanne, H ^a   Lavoie, B A ^a   Capaday, C ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Corticospinal pathway; Magnetic stimulation; Motor cortex; Single motor units

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETIC STIMULATION; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR UNIT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SENSORY NERVE;

EID: 0030986046     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00005641     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Abbruzzese G, Morena M, Spadavecchia L, Schieppati M (1994) Response of arm flexor muscles to magnetic and electrical brain stimulation during shortening and lengthening tasks in man. J Physiol (Lond) 481:499-507
2. Amassian VE, Stuart M, Quirk GJ, Rosenthal JL (1987) Physiological effects of a transient stimulus to cerebral cortex. Neurosurgery 20:74-93
3. Ashby P, Zilm D (1982) Relationship between EPSP shape and cross-correlation profile explored by computer stimulation for studies of human motoneurones. Exp Brain Res 47:33-40
4. Baker SN, Olivier E, Lemon RN (1994) Recording an identified pyramidal volley evoked by transcranial magnetic stimulation in a conscious macaque monkey. Exp Brain Res 99:529-532
5. Burke D, Hicks R, Gandevia SC, Stephen J, Woodforth I, Crawford M (1993) Direct comparison of corticospinal volleys in human subjects to transcranial magnetic and electrical stimulation. J Physiol (Lond) 470:383-393
6. Burke D, Gracies JM, Mazevet D, Meunier S, Pierrot-Deseilligny E (1994) Non-monosynaptic transmission of the cortical command for voluntary movement in man. J Physiol (Lond) 480:191-207
7. Capaday C (1996) Neurophysiological methods for the study of the motor system in freely moving human subjects. J Neurosci Methods (in press)
8. Capaday C, Stein RB (1987) A method for simulating the reflex output of a motoneurone pool. J Neurosci Methods 21:91-104
9. Crone C, Hultborn H, Mazieres L, Morin C, Nielsen J, Pierrot-Deseilligny E (1990) Sensitivity of monosynaptic test reflexes to facilitation and inhibition as a function of the test reflex size: a study in man and the cat. Exp Brain Res 81:35-45
10. Datta AK, Harrison LM, Stephens JA (1989) Task-dependent changes in the size of response to magnetic brain stimulation in human first dorsal interosseous muscle. J Physiol (Lond) 8:13-23
11. Day BL, Dresslier D, Maertens De Noordhout A, Marsden CD, Nakashima K, Rothwell JC, Thompson PD (1989) Electric and magnetic stimulation of human motor cortex: surface emg and single motor unit responses. J Physiol (Lond) 412:449-473
12. Devanne H, Lavoie BA, Capaday C (1995) Input-output properties and changes of recruitment gain of the corticospinal pathway. Soc Neurosci Abstr 21:2074
13. Edgley SA, Eyre JA, Lemon RN, Miller S (1990) Excitation of the cortico-spinal tract by electromagnetic and electrical stimulation of the scalp in the macaque monkey. J Physiol (Lond) 425:301-320
14. Erlanger J, Gasser HS (1937) Electrical signs of nervous activity. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
15. Flament D, Goldsmith P, Buckley CJ, Lemon RN (1993) Task dependence of responses in first dorsal interosseous muscle to magnetic brain stimulation in man. J Physiol (Lond) 464: 361-378
16. Heckmun CJ (1994) Computer stimulations of the effects of different synaptic input systems on the steady-state input-output structure of the motoneurone pool. J Neurophysiol 71: 1727-1739
17. Henneman E (1957) Relation between the size of neurons and their susceptibility to discharge. Science 126:1345-1347
18. Henneman E, Mendell LM (1981) Functional organization of motoneurone pool and its inputs. In: Brooks VB (ed) Handbook of physiology, sect I, vol II, part I. American Physiological Society Baltimore, MD, pp 432-507
19. Hess CW, Mills KR, Murray NMF (1987) Responses in small hand muscles from magnetic stimulation of the human brain. J Physiol (Lond) 388:397-419
20. Hultborn H, Meunier S, Morin C, Pierrot-Deseilligny E (1987) Assessing changes in presynaptic inhibition of Ia fibres: a study in man and the cat. J Physiol (Lond) 389:729-756
21. Hunt CC (1955) Monosynaptic reflex response of spinal motoneurones to graded afferent stimulation. J Gen Physiol 38: 813-852
22. Kew JJM, Ridding MC, Rothwell JC, Passingham RF, Leigh PN, Sooriakumaran S, Frackoviak RSJ, Brooks DJ (1994) Reorganization of cortical blood flow and transcranial magnetic stimulation maps in human subjects after upper limb amputation. J Neurophysiol 72:2517-2524
23. Lavoie BA, Cody FWJ, Capaday C (1995) Cortical control of human soleus muscle during volitional and postural activities studied using focal magnetic stimulation. Exp Brain Res 103: 97-107
24. Levy AJ, Amassian VE, Traad M, Cadwell J (1990) Focal magnetic coil stimulation reveals motor cortical system reorganized in humans after traumatic quadriplegiu. Brain Res 510:130-134
25. Lindström L, Petersén NI (1983) Power spectrum analysis of EMG signals and its applications. Prog Clin Neurophysiol 10:1-51
26. Maertens De Noordhoot A, Pépin JL, Gérard P, Delwaide PJ (1992) Facilitation of responses to motor cortex stimulation: effects of voluntary isometric contraction. Ann Neurol 32: 365-370
27. Mazzocchio R, Rothwell JC, Day BL, Thompson PD (1994) Effect of tonic voluntary activity on the excitability human motor cortex. J Physiol (Lond) 474:261-267
28. Mills KR (1991) Magnetic brain stimulation: a tool to explore the action of the motor cortex on single human spinal motoneurones. Trends Neurosci 14:401-405
29. Nielsen J, Petersen N, Deuschl G, Ballegaard M (1993) Task-related changes in the effect of magnetic brain stimulation on spinal neurons in man. J Physiol (Lond) 471:223-243
30. Pascual-Leone A, Camarota A, Wassermann EM, Brasil Neto JP, Cohen LG, Hallet M (1993) Modulation of motor cortical outputs to the reading hand of braille readers. Ann Neurol 34:33-37
31. Poliakov AV, Miles TS (1992) Quantitative analysis of reflex responses in the averaged surface electromyogram. J Neurosci Methods 34:195-200
32. Press WH, Flannery BP, Teukolsky SA, Vetterling WT (1986) Numerical recipes. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
33. Rail W (1955) Experimental monosynaptic input-output relations in the mammalian spinal cord. J Cell Comp Physiol 46: 413-437
34. Stein RB, Capaday C (1988) The modulation of human reflexes during functional motor tasks. Trends Neurosci 11:328-332
35. Wilier JC, Miserocchi G, Gauthier H (1987) Hypoxia and monosynaptic reflexes in humans. J Appl Physiol 63:639-645