Exploring Peripheral Mechanism of Tremor on Neuromusculoskeletal Model: A General Simulation Study

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2359-2369

  Zhang, Dingguo ^a   Poignet, Philippe ^b   Bo, Antônio P L ^b   Ang, Wei Tech ^c  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Central oscillator; neuromusculoskeletal modeling; peripheral neural dynamics; reflex loops; tremor

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TORQUE; TREMOR; WRIST;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PERIPHERAL NERVES; TORQUE; TREMOR; WRIST JOINT;

EID: 74049107245     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2009.2023979     Document Type: Article

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