Day 310: Review – Interfacing with alpha motor neurons in spinal cord injury patients

Spatiotemporal spinal maps of ipsilateral a-MNs. (A) Experimental set-up for ankle plantar flexion. (B) HD-EMG is decomposed into a-MN spike trains using a convolutive blind-source separation technique. (C) The spinal output to generate the neural drive to muscles is estimated from the a-MN spike trains.

The world is on fire, we’re protesting for a future, but today I have my review paper due so instead of writing about my frustrations I’m going to share my review. Today we’re looking at the effects of trans-spinal direct current stimulation (tsDCS) on alpha motor neurons and how we can determine that effect using electromyography. It’s actually a very cool paper, the work is well done, and it’s open source so you can read it if you’re interested.

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June 24, 2020 | Categories: 365 Days of Academia - Year one, Critical Reviews | Tags: biology, neurology, neuroscience, PhD, research, spinal, spinal cord, spinal cord injury | Leave a comment