Electrophysiological evidence against the hypothesis that corticospinal fibres send collaterals to the lateral reticular nucleus.

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of cutaneous feedback in the agonist-antagonist co-activation mechanism during maximum voluntary force (MVF) production by the fingers. Seventeen healthy male subjects (age: 23.8 ± 1.0 years) were asked to press with maximal effort at their fingertips. Finger force...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Kim Y,Shim JK,Hong YK,Lee SH,Yoon BC

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During voluntary movement, muscle spindles of both the agonist and antagonist muscles potentially can supply information about position of the limb. Muscle vibration is known to increase muscle spindle discharge and cause systematic distortions of limb position sense in humans. The following two experiments attempted ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Inglis JT,Frank JS

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Past research has demonstrated that both peripheral and central vision play an important role in the control of movement direction. However, it has been unclear whether the benefits of these sources of information are due to adjustments in the limb trajectory during movement execution (i.e., online) or modification in...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Khan MA,Lawrence GP,Franks IM,Buckolz E

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A strong subjective tendency exists for simultaneous sound frequencies forming an harmonic series (integer multiples of the fundamental) to "group" together into a unified auditory percept whose pitch is similar to that of the fundamental. The aim of the study was to determine whether cortical auditory evoked potentia...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Jones SJ

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 15 musicians, cortical DC-potentials were recorded from the scalp before and during the execution of bimanual motor sequences. Subjects (Ss) either tapped with their two index fingers in synchrony (quavers against quavers; "2 against 2") or they tapped quavers against triplets ("2 against 3"). Either the right or t...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Lang W,Obrig H,Lindinger G,Cheyne D,Deecke L

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual feedback is essential when minimizing force fluctuations. Varying degrees of somatotopic organization have been shown in different regions of the brain for the upper and lower extremities, and visual feedback may be processed differently based on the body effector where feedback-based corrections are used. This...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Prodoehl J,Vaillancourt DE

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemi-seesaw nystagmus (hemi-SSN) is a jerk-waveform nystagmus with conjugate torsional and disjunctive vertical components. Halmagyi et al. in Brain 117(Pt 4):789-803 (1994), reported hemi-SSN in patients with unilateral lesions in the vicinity of the Interstitial Nucleus of Cajal (INC) and suggested that an imbalance...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Das VE,Leigh RJ,Swann M,Thurtell MJ

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the distribution of labeled neurons in the parabigeminal nucleus of the monkey following injections of retrograde fluorescent tracers into the superior colliculus. The extent of the visual field representation included in the injection site was assessed from the location of labeled cells in striate cortex....

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Baizer JS,Whitney JF,Bender DB

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lightly touching a stable reference is associated with sway reduction during standing. Unexpected displacement of the touch reference results in a false-positive balance reaction in some participants, but only with the first such disturbance. This study investigated whether light touch reduces standing sway (1) after ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Bryanton MA,Chodan SDC,Vander Meulen J,Fenrich KK,Misiaszek JE

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has previously been found that in fast point-to-point arm movements, proprioceptive feedback is centrally suppressed at the beginning of movement and is facilitated at a time that is correlated with temporal parameters of the planned movement. Here, we show that this correlation holds when subjects are explicitly i...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： David FJ,Poon C,Niu CM,Corcos DM,Shapiro MB

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to clarify the functional role of the supplementary motor area (SMA) and its rostral part (pre-SMA) in relation to the rate of repetitive finger movements, we recorded movement-related cortical potentials (MRCPs) directly from the surface of the mesial frontal lobe by using subdural electrode grids implanted ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Kunieda T,Ikeda A,Ohara S,Yazawa S,Nagamine T,Taki W,Hashimoto N,Shibasaki H

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study analyses the strategies adopted by normal subjects when they are asked to make two separate movements as rapidly as possible one after the other. Five subjects performed the following sequential movements in their own time. 1) Squeeze an isometric force transducer between fingers and thumb to a force...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Benecke R,Rothwell JC,Day BL,Dick JP,Marsden CD

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hand shaping during prehension involves intricate coordination of a complex system of bones, joints, and muscles. It is widely hypothesized that the motor system uses strategies to reduce the degrees of independent control. Both biomechanical constraints that result in coupling of the fingers and joints and neural syn...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Prosise JF,Hendrix CM,Ebner TJ

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The topographical mapping of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP)-immunoreactivity was performed in coronal serial sections of the rat mesencephalon, rhombencephalon and spinal cord. Relative to a background of poor or moderate overall staining of the mesencephalon, the interpeduncular nucleus, substantia nigra and ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Hajós F,Kálmán M

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:APP, APLP1, and APLP2 form a family of mammalian membrane proteins with unknown function. APP, however, plays a key role in the molecular pathology of Alzheimer's disease (AD), indicating that it is somehow involved in synaptic transmission, synaptic plasticity, memory formation, and maintenance of neurons. At present...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Korte M,Herrmann U,Zhang X,Draguhn A

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The parameters characterizing Listing's plane have been determined in a group of normal subjects, and in patients who have had unilateral vestibular deafferentation on the right or left side. All patients were well compensated. There was no statistically significant difference in the orientation of Listing's plane bet...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Haslwanter T,Curthoys IS,Black R,Topple A

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonlinear analysis of the multifocal cortical visual evoked potential has allowed the identification of neural generation of higher-order nonlinear components by magnocellular and parvocellular neural streams. However, the location of individual brain sources that make such contributions to these evoked responses has ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Crewther DP,Brown A,Hugrass L

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A compensatory stepping response (CSR) is a common strategy to restore dynamic stability in response to a postural disturbance. Currently, few studies have investigated the CSR to laterally directed disturbances delivered to subjects during quiet standing. The purpose of this study was to characterize the CSR of young...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Hurt CP,Rosenblatt NJ,Grabiner MD

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The overlap of dominant tremor frequencies and similarly amplified tremor observed for Parkinson's disease (PD) and essential tremor (ET) means differentiating between these pathologies is often difficult. As tremor exhibits non-linear properties, employing both linear and non-linear analyses may help distinguish betw...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Morrison S,Newell KM,Kavanagh JJ

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the study was to determine the contributions of endpoint variance and trajectory variability to the endpoint accuracy of goal-directed isometric contractions when the target force and contraction speed were varied. Thirteen young adults (25 +/- 6 years) performed blocks of 15 trials at each of 2 contrac...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Poston B,Christou EA,Enoka JA,Enoka RM

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perhaps the most intriguing disorders of body representation are those that are not due to primary disease of brain tissue. Strange and sometimes painful phantom limb sensations can result from loss of afference to the brain; and Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)-the subject of the current report-can follow limb t...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Bultitude JH,Rafal RD

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand performance of evasive and interceptive actions it is important to know how people decide when to initiate a movement-initiating at the 'right' moment is often essential for successful performance. It has been proposed that initiation is triggered when a perceptually derived quantity reaches an invariant...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Tresilian JR,Wallis GM,Mattocks C

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhythmic auditory cues aim to modulate step times while walking. Their effect on the variability of minimum foot clearance, which is "normally" the most controlled gait parameter in normal overground walking, has not been studied, yet. We aim to analyse the effects of auditory cues on the variability of foot clearance...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Hamacher D,Hamacher D,Herold F,Schega L

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To examine the accuracy and latency of reflexive saccades to vibratory stimulation of the fingertips made by normal human subjects and to compare the findings to those of visually guided saccades. METHODS:Eye movements were recorded using infrared oculography. Stimuli were presented via an array of audiometric...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Sullivan A,Fitzmaurice K,Abel LA

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study examined whether the amount and location of available movement information influenced the stability of visuomotor coordination. Participants coordinated a handheld pendulum with an oscillating visual stimulus in an inphase and antiphase manner. The effects of occluding different amounts of phase at d...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Hajnal A,Richardson MJ,Harrison SJ,Schmidt RC

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of altered gravitational forces (AGF) on the development of the static vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) were investigated in Xenopus laevis tadpoles exposed to hypergravity (1.4g; 3g) or microgravity conditions (German spacelab mission D-2) for 9-10 days. The effects of light conditions during development wer...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Sebastian C,Esseling K,Horn E

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent anatomical and physiological studies have suggested that parts of the cingulate cortex are involved in the control of movement. These areas have been collectively termed the cingulate motor area (CMA). Currently almost nothing is known, however, about how neurons in the CMA actually participate in the control o...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Backus DA,Ye S,Russo GS,Crutcher MD

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle activity patterns in some complex human jaw muscles appear to be task sensitive. However, it is presently uncertain how changes in motor task affect motor unit (MU) behaviour in the human temporalis muscle. In this study, activity was recorded from 40 MUs in the anterior region of the muscle. The lowest sustain...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： McMillan AS

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spike trains of X and Y retinal ganglion cell axons and neurons in the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) of cats were compared to determine if the visual signal could be better discriminated from the maintained activity in the LGN relative to the retina. Curves for relative or receiver operating characteristics (RO...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Wilson JR,Bullier J,Norton TT

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is still controversy in the literature whether a single episode of mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) results in short-term functional and/or structural deficits as well as any induced long-term residual effects. With the inability of traditional structural brain imaging techniques to accurately diagnosis MTBI, ...

journal_title：Experimental brain research

authors： Zhang K,Johnson B,Pennell D,Ray W,Sebastianelli W,Slobounov S

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00