The contribution of force-sensitive muscular afferents to prolonged flexion withdrawal reflexes, or flexor spasms, after human spinal cord injury (SCI) was investigated. In three separate experimental conditions, flexion reflexes were triggered in subjects with SCI using trains of electrocutaneous stimuli delivered at the foot and lower leg and compared with reflexes elicited via intramuscular ...

The obturator nerve lies deep within the pelvis, and it can be damaged by direct injury during surgery. In this study, conduction was used to confirm an in a patient who presented with hip adductor weakness following gynecological surgery for endometrial cancer. A 56-year-old woman complained of right muscles after laparoscopic hysterectomy due Seven days surgery, degree Medical Research Counci...

We used fast, pseudorandom temporal sequences of preferred and antipreferred stimuli to drive neuronal firing rates rapidly between minimal and maximal across the visual system. Stimuli were tailored to the preferences of cells recorded in the lateral geniculate nucleus (magnocellular and parvocellular), primary visual cortex (simple and complex), and the extrastriate motion area MT. We found t...

Introduction: The rapid development of wireless telecommunication technologies over the past decades, has led to significant changes in the exposure of the general public to electromagnetic fields. Nowadays, people are continuously exposed to different sources of electromagnetic fields such as mobile phones, mobile base stations, cordless phones, Wi-Fi routers, and power lines. Therefore, th...

Objective: Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is the most common peripheral neuropathy affecting upper limbs. Various treatment methods exist for this disease, but only a few reports have compared effects of various treatments using objective indicators. This study analyzed changes in electrophysiological parameters after carpal release.Methods: In patients planning to undergo surgical CTS, studies, ...

The contribution of force-sensitive muscular afferents to prolonged flexion withdrawal reflexes, or flexor spasms, following human spinal cord injury (SCI) was investigated. In three separate experimental conditions, flexion reflexes were triggered in subjects with SCI using trains of electrocutaneous stimuli delivered at the foot and lower leg and compared to reflexes elicited via intramuscula...

This paper proposes a fast estimation method for energy and latency of QDI (quasi delay-insensitive) asynchronous circuits. The energy and latency results can be combined into an Et n metric for allowing comparison between different asynchronous implementations. Furthermore, each implementation can be transformed and new values of energy and latency can be quickly and easily recalculated. In th...

31 Plantar flexor series elasticity can be used to dissociate muscle-fascicle and 32 muscle-tendon behaviour and, therefore, afferent feedback during human walking. We 33 used electromyography (EMG) and high speed ultrasonography concomitantly to 34 monitor muscle activity and muscle fascicle behaviour in nineteen healthy volunteers 35 as they walked across a platform. On random trials, the pla...

Introduction: The study aimed to investigate the onset time and the electromyographic activity level of the selected lower limbs muscles in active and inactive aged women. Methods: in this case-control study, 28 aged women with a mean age of 61.07±0.88 were selected in two groups of inactive (15 people) and active (13 people). The electrical activity of the selected muscles of the lower l...

Plantar flexor series elasticity can be used to dissociate muscle-fascicle and muscle-tendon behavior and thus afferent feedback during human walking. We used electromyography (EMG) and high-speed ultrasonography concomitantly to monitor muscle activity and muscle fascicle behavior in 19 healthy volunteers as they walked across a platform. On random trials, the platform was dropped (8 cm, 0.9 g...