An importa nt strategy to promote voluntary movements after motor system injury is to strengthen the connections between the motor cortex and muscles by taking advantage of the plasticity of the corticospinal motor sy...
Purpose:The aim of the study was to determine whether corticospinal excitability and inhibition of the tibialis anterior during single-leg standing differs among individuals with chronic ankle instability(CAI),lateral...
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Standard brain stimulation protocols modify human motor cortex excitability by modulating the gain of the activated corticospinal pathways. However, the restoration of motor function following...
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE In the chronic phase after stroke, cortical excitability differs between the cerebral hemispheres;the magnitude of this asymmetry depends on degree of motor impairment. It is unclear whether t...
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The ability of the motor system to show plastic change underlies skill learning, and also permits recovery after injury. METHODS One puzzling observation is that after stroke, upper limb flexo...
The synapse is an incredibly specialized structure that allows for the coordinated communication of information from one neuron to another. When assembled into circuits, steady streams of excitatory and inhibitory syn...
Chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD) caused 3.2 million deaths worldwide in 2015 [1]. Therapeutic treatments, including acupuncture & herbal medicine have been applied to handle this disease with certain effi...
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE It is known that pairing noninvasive stimulation of the primary motor cortex and a peripheralnerve, known as paired corticospinal transmission-motoneuronal stimulation (PCMS), enhances corti...
Neuromuscular activity is suppressed during maximal eccentric(ECC)muscle contraction in untrained subjects owing to attenuated levels of central activation and reduced spinal motor neuron(MN)excitability indicated by ...
supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.61361160415,81271684,81501570;the Major State Basic Research Development of China(973 Program),No.2011CB013304;the Medicine-Engineering Interdisciplinary Research Grant from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China,No.YG2014ZD09;a grant from the Youth Eastern Scholar Program at Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning in China,No.QD2015007
Essential tremor, also referred to as familial tremor, is an autosomal dominant genetic disease and the most common movement disorder. It typically involves a postural and motor tremor of the hands, head or other part...