Influence of common synaptic input to motor neurons on the neural drive to muscle in essential tremor

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 182-191

  Gallego, Juan A ^a   Dideriksen, Jakob L ^b   Holobar, Ales ^c   Ibáñez, Jaime ^d   Pons, José L ^d   Louis, Elan D ^e,f   Rocon, Eduardo ^a,g   Farina, Dario ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR AUTOMATION AND ROBOTICS   (Spain)

^b BERNSTEIN CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^d INSTITUTO CAJAL   (Spain)

^e Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo ^*  (United States)

^f NONE   (United States)

^g FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Coherence; EEG; EMG; Motor neuron; Motor unit; Pathological tremor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ACTION POTENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HAND; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SYNAPSE; VERY ELDERLY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; HAND; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84920911213     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00531.2014     Document Type: Article

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