The neural control of movement: a century of in vivo motor unit recordings is the legacy of Adrian and Bronk

D Farina, S Gandevia - The Journal of Physiology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In two papers dated 1928 to 1929 in The Journal of Physiology, Edgar Adrian and Detlev
Bronk described recordings from motor nerve and muscle fibres. The recordings from motor …

Tutorial on MUedit: An open-source software for identifying and analysing the discharge timing of motor units from electromyographic signals

S Avrillon, F Hug, SN Baker, C Gibbs… - … of Electromyography and …, 2024 - Elsevier
We introduce the open-source software MUedit and we describe its use for identifying the
discharge timing of motor units from all types of electromyographic (EMG) signals recorded …

An output-null signature of inertial load in motor cortex

EA Kirk, KT Hope, SJ Sober, BA Sauerbrei - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Coordinated movement requires the nervous system to continuously compensate for
changes in mechanical load across different conditions. For voluntary movements like …

Motor unit adaptation to disuse: crossing the threshold from firing rate suppression to neuromuscular junction transmission

M Piasecki - The Journal of Physiology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Neural conditioning to scenarios of muscle disuse is undoubtedly a cause of functional
decrements that typically exceed losses of muscle size. Yet establishing the relative …

Two motor neuron synergies, invariant across ankle joint angles, activate the triceps surae during plantarflexion

J Levine, S Avrillon, D Farina, F Hug… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recent studies have suggested that the nervous system generates movements by
controlling groups of motor neurons (synergies) that do not always align with muscle …

Hand–Jaw Coordination as Mice Handle Food Is Organized around Intrinsic Structure–Function Relationships

JM Barrett, ME Martin, M Gao, RE Druzinsky… - Journal of …, 2024 - jneurosci.org
Rodent jaws evolved structurally to support dual functionality, for either biting or chewing
food. Rodent hands also function dually during food handling, for actively manipulating or …

I-Spin live, an open-source software based on blind-source separation for real-time decoding of motor unit activity in humans

J Rossato, F Hug, K Tucker, C Gibbs, L Lacourpaille… - eLife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
Decoding the activity of individual neural cells during natural behaviours allows
neuroscientists to study how the nervous system generates and controls movements …

Neuro-musculoskeletal modeling reveals muscle-level neural dynamics of adaptive learning in sensorimotor cortex

T DeWolf, S Schneider, P Soubiran, A Roggenbach… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The neural activity of the brain is intimately coupled to the dynamics of the body. Yet how our
hierarchical sensorimotor system dynamically orchestrates the generation of movement …

[HTML][HTML] I-Spin live: An open-source software based on blind-source separation for decoding the activity of spinal alpha motor neurons in real-time

J Rossato, F Hug, K Tucker, L Lacourpaille, D Farina… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Decoding the activity of individual neural cells during natural behaviours allows
neuroscientists to study how the nervous system generates and controls movements …

Neuromotor control of spontaneous quiet breathing in awake rats evaluated by assessments of diaphragm EMG stationarity

OU Khurram, CB Mantilla… - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
The neuromotor control of the diaphragm muscle (DIAm) is dynamic. The activity of the DIAm
can be recorded via electromyography (EMG), which represents the temporal summation of …