Decorrelation of cortical inputs and motoneuron output

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2688-2697

  Negro, Francesco ^a,b   Farina, Dario ^b  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coherence; Corticospinal; Modeling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; MOTONEURON; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SIMULATION; SPIKE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PERIODICITY; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 80755143825     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00336.2011     Document Type: Article

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