Identification of common synaptic inputs to motor neurons from the rectified electromyogram

• Published in: The Journal of physiology Vol. 591; no. 10; pp. 2403 - 2418
• Main Authors: Farina, Dario, Negro, Francesco, Jiang, Ning
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.05.2013; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc; Blackwell Science Inc
• Subjects: Action Potentials; Adult; Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Computational Neuroscience and Modelling; Electromyography; Female; Fourier Analysis; Humans; Male; Models, Biological; Motor Neurons - physiology; Muscle, Skeletal - physiology; Neurons; Synaptic Transmission; Young Adult

Key points •  Oscillatory drives at the input of a pool of motor neurons are transmitted to the motor neuron output (neural drive to the muscle) in an approximately linear way if these inputs are common to all motor neurons. •  The neural drive to the muscle is transformed in the EMG signal that can...