Connectivity in the neural control of muscles in stroke patients.

Project Information

NeuralCon

Grant agreement ID: 702491

DOI 10.3030/702491

Project closed

EC signature date 17 March 2016

Start date 1 October 2016

End date 30 September 2018

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost € 168 277,20

EU contribution € 168 277,20

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI BRESCIA
Italy

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (17)

Tracking motor units longitudinally across experimental sessions with high-density surface electromyography

Author(s): E. Martinez-Valdes, F. Negro, C. M. Laine, D. Falla, F. Mayer, D. Farina
Published in: The Journal of Physiology, Issue 595/5, 2017, Page(s) 1479-1496, ISSN 0022-3751
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1113/JP273662

Robust estimation of average twitch contraction forces of populations of motor units in humans

Author(s): Francesco Negro, Claudio Orizio
Published in: Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology, 2017, ISSN 1050-6411
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jelekin.2017.10.005

Distribution of muscle fibre conduction velocity for representative samples of motor units in the full recruitment range of the tibialis anterior muscle

Author(s): A. Del Vecchio, F. Negro, F. Felici, D. Farina
Published in: Acta Physiologica, 2017, ISSN 1748-1708
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/apha.12930

Higher muscle fiber conduction velocity and early rate of torque development in chronically strength-trained individuals

Author(s): A. Del Vecchio, F. Negro, D. Falla, I. Bazzucchi, D. Farina, F. Felici
Published in: Journal of Applied Physiology, Issue 125/4, 2018, Page(s) 1218-1226, ISSN 8750-7587
Publisher: American Physiological Society
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00025.2018

Early Motor Unit Conduction Velocity Changes to High-Intensity Interval Training versus Continuous Training

Author(s): EDUARDO MARTINEZ-VALDES, DARIO FARINA, FRANCESCO NEGRO, ALESSANDRO DEL VECCHIO, DEBORAH FALLA
Published in: Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, Issue 50/11, 2018, Page(s) 2339-2350, ISSN 0195-9131
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Ltd.
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000001705

Associations between motor unit action potential parameters and surface EMG features

Author(s): Alessandro Del Vecchio, Francesco Negro, Francesco Felici, Dario Farina
Published in: Journal of Applied Physiology, Issue 123/4, 2017, Page(s) 835-843, ISSN 8750-7587
Publisher: American Physiological Society
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00482.2017

Ischemic conditioning increases strength and volitional activation of paretic muscle in chronic stroke: a pilot study

Author(s): Allison S. Hyngstrom, Spencer A. Murphy, Jennifer Nguyen, Brian D. Schmit, Francesco Negro, David D. Gutterman, Matthew J. Durand
Published in: Journal of Applied Physiology, Issue 124/5, 2018, Page(s) 1140-1147, ISSN 8750-7587
Publisher: American Physiological Society
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01072.2017

Coherence of the Surface EMG and Common Synaptic Input to Motor Neurons

Author(s): Jakob L. Dideriksen, Francesco Negro, Deborah Falla, Signe R. Kristensen, Natalie Mrachacz-Kersting, Dario Farina
Published in: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Issue 12, 2018, ISSN 1662-5161
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00207

Spike-triggered averaging provides inaccurate estimates of motor unit twitch properties under optimal conditions

Author(s): Jakob L. Dideriksen, Francesco Negro
Published in: Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology, Issue 43, 2018, Page(s) 104-110, ISSN 1050-6411
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jelekin.2018.09.008

Distribution of muscle fibre conduction velocity for representative samples of motor units in the full recruitment range of the tibialis anterior muscle

Author(s): A. Del Vecchio, F. Negro, F. Felici, D. Farina
Published in: Acta Physiologica, Issue 222/2, 2018, Page(s) e12930, ISSN 1748-1708
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/apha.12930

Does vibration superimposed on low-level isometric contraction alter motor unit recruitment strategy?

Author(s): Lin Xu, Francesco Negro, Yu Xu, Chiara Rabotti, Goof Schep, Dario Farina, Massimo Mischi
Published in: Journal of Neural Engineering, Issue 15/6, 2018, Page(s) 066001, ISSN 1741-2560
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/aadc43

Reciprocal inhibition between motor neurons of the tibialis anterior and triceps surae in humans

Author(s): Utku Ş. Yavuz, Francesco Negro, Robin Diedrichs, Dario Farina
Published in: Journal of Neurophysiology, Issue 119/5, 2018, Page(s) 1699-1706, ISSN 0022-3077
Publisher: American Physiological Society
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00424.2017

Correlation between discharge timings of pairs of motor units reveals the presence but not the proportion of common synaptic input to motor neurons

Author(s): Javier Rodriguez-Falces, Francesco Negro, Dario Farina
Published in: Journal of Neurophysiology, Issue 117/4, 2017, Page(s) 1749-1760, ISSN 0022-3077
Publisher: American Physiological Society
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00497.2016

Robust and accurate decoding of motoneuron behaviour and prediction of the resulting force output

Author(s): Christopher K. Thompson, Francesco Negro, Michael D. Johnson, Matthew R. Holmes, Laura Miller McPherson, Randall K. Powers, Dario Farina, Charles J. Heckman
Published in: The Journal of Physiology, Issue 596/14, 2018, Page(s) 2643-2659, ISSN 0022-3751
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1113/jp276153

Stroke Increases Ischemia-related Decreases in Motor Unit Discharge Rates

Author(s): Spencer A. Murphy, Francesco Negro, Dario Farina, Tanya Onushko, Matthew J. Durand, Sandra K. Hunter, Brian D. Schmit, Allison S. Hyngstrom
Published in: Journal of Neurophysiology, 2018, ISSN 0022-3077
Publisher: American Physiological Society
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00923.2017

Surface electromyographic amplitude does not identify differences in neural drive to synergistic muscles

Author(s): Eduardo Martinez-Valdes, Francesco Negro, Deborah Falla, Alessandro Marco De Nunzio, Dario Farina
Published in: Journal of Applied Physiology, Issue 124/4, 2018, Page(s) 1071-1079, ISSN 8750-7587
Publisher: American Physiological Society
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01115.2017

Man/machine interface based on the discharge timings of spinal motor neurons after targeted muscle reinnervation

Author(s): Dario Farina, Ivan Vujaklija, Massimo Sartori, Tamás Kapelner, Francesco Negro, Ning Jiang, Konstantin Bergmeister, Arash Andalib, Jose Principe, Oskar C. Aszmann
Published in: Nature Biomedical Engineering, Issue 1/2, 2017, Page(s) 0025, ISSN 2157-846X
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41551-016-0025

Book chapters (2)

Hybrid Gaussian Point-Process Model for Finer Control of Myoelectric Robotic Hands

Author(s): Sohail Siadatnejad, Francesco Negro, Luca Citi
Published in: 2018, Page(s) 137-140
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-01845-0_27

Neural Biomarkers of Functional Recovery in Patients with Injured Motor System

Author(s): Francesco Negro, Marta Cogliati, Alessandro Cudicio, Luciano Bissolotti, Claudio Orizio
Published in: 2018, Page(s) 907-910
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-01845-0_182