Coherence between motor unit discharges in response to shared neural inputs

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 163, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 384-391

  Lowery, Madeleine M ^a,b   Myers, Lance J ^b   Erim, Zeynep ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Coherence; Model; Motor unit; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 34249890769     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2007.03.011     Document Type: Article

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