Examination of afterhyperpolarization duration changes in motoneurons innervating paretic muscles in stroke survivors

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3580-3583

  Suresh, Aneesha K ^a   Hu, Xiaogang ^a   Powers, Randall K ^b   Rymer, William Zev ^a,c  

^a REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ANALYSIS METHOD; DEATH RATES; FIRING RATES; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE FORCE; NOVEL SURFACES; POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE; TIME COURSE; VARIABILITY ANALYSIS;

GRAPHIC METHODS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MUSCLE; NEURONS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTONEURON; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

AGED; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; STROKE;

EID: 84870850694     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6346740     Document Type: Conference Paper

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