One central oscillatory drive is compatible with experimental motor unit behaviour in essential and Parkinsonian tremor

Journal of Neural Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Dideriksen, Jakob L ^a,b   Gallego, Juan A ^c,d   Holobar, Ales ^e   Rocon, Eduardo ^c,f   Pons, Jose L ^g   Farina, Dario ^a,g  

^a BERNSTEIN CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c CENTRE FOR AUTOMATION AND ROBOTICS   (Spain)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^f FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Brazil)

^g INSTITUTO CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

motor unit; neural drive; pathological tremor

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODELS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; NEURAL NETWORKS; NEURONS;

ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESIS; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; MOTOR UNIT; MOTOR UNIT ACTION POTENTIALS; NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS; OSCILLATORY NETWORKS; PATHOLOGICAL TREMORS; SURFACE ELECTROMYOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSIS;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AGED; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MOTONEURON; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; MUSCLE; OSCILLATION; OSCILLATOR; PARKINSONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; VELOCITY; ACTION POTENTIAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SKELETAL MUSCLE CELL; VERY ELDERLY; WRIST;

PARKINSONIA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; PARKINSON DISEASE; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; WRIST;

EID: 84937510623     PISSN: 17412560     EISSN: 17412552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2560/12/4/046019     Document Type: Article

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