Entrainment to extinction of physiological tremor by spindle afferent input

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 194-203

  Cathers, Ian ^a   O'Dwyer, Nicholas ^a   Neilson, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coupled oscillators; Electromyography; Neural modelling; Stretch reflex; Tremor; Wrist

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; JOINT FUNCTION; MALE; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; MYOTATIC REFLEX; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREMOR; WRIST;

ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE SPINDLES; REFLEX, STRETCH; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TREMOR; WRIST;

EID: 33646502369     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-005-0258-9     Document Type: Article

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