Cortical drives to human muscle: the Piper and related rhythms.

Journal article

Abstract:: During voluntary activity in humans, motor units are exposed to a number of descending drives that tend to synchronize motor unit activity at particular frequencies. In particular, the contralateral motor cortex drives muscle discharge in the beta (15-30 Hz) and Piper (30-60 Hz) bands. The cortical activity in these bands is task-specific, somatopicly distributed and generally precedes muscle discharge by an interval appropriate for conduction in fast pyramidal pathways. Coherence between cor...
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Institution:

University of Oxford

Division:

MPLS

Department:

Engineering Science

Sub department:

Institute of Biomedical Engineering

Role:

Author

Language:: English
Keywords:: Magnetoencephalography

Motor Cortex

Electromyography

Myoclonus

Humans

Periodicity

Muscle, Skeletal

Animals

Electroencephalography

Parkinson Disease
Pubs id:: pubs:368954
UUID:: uuid:1adf3a23-2d8e-4b61-87c8-1174c5f723b7
Local pid:: pubs:368954
Source identifiers:: 368954
Deposit date:: 2013-11-17

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