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Movement Neuroscience: Connections between the Brain and Muscles in Humans (MN(A))
- Dozentinnen/Dozenten
- Prof. Dr. Alessandro Del Vecchio, u. Mitarbeiter
- Angaben
- Vorlesung
3 SWS, ECTS-Studium, ECTS-Credits: 5, Sprache Englisch
Zeit und Ort: Mo 14:15 - 15:45, K2-119
- Studienfächer / Studienrichtungen
- WF MT-MA ab 1 (ECTS-Credits: 5)
- ECTS-Informationen:
- Title:
- Movement neuroscience: connections between the brain and muscles in humans
- Credits: 5
- Prerequisites
- Compulsory prerequisites: No compulsory prerequisites.
Recommended: Basic biology and neurophysiology, Computer programming (Matlab and/or Python), Biosignal processing
- Contents
- Module: Principles of Neural control of movement and neuroengineering
How the central nervous system controls muscle forces; Neurons, upper and lower motoneurons, Cortical and brainstem function, Interneurons and Motor Units. Neuroengineering applications for studying the neural control of movement; invasive and non-invasive recordings, electrical stimulation of the nervous system.
Module: Electrophysiology
Generation of an action potential, difference between intracellular and extracellular action potential, sparsity of the action potential in a matrix of electrodes. Module: Generation of EMG signals and analysis
Recording electrophysiological data in humans; examples of EMG and EEG recordings. Module: Oscillations in neuronal networks
Coherence analysis; Common synaptic input to populations of neurons; Noise in the nervous system; Associations between EEG and EMG signals; Startle responses Module: Simulation of muscle forces from the firing of individual motoneurons
Motor unit model, Hodgkin–Huxley model, Muscle Properties Module: EMG signals in Neural Pathologies
Parkinson’s and Spinal Cord Injury, Motor unit analysis in neurodegenerative and neurotraumatic diseases. Module: MATLAB / Python practical coursework
Extraction of neural information from electrophysiological signals; associations of information between electrophysiological signals and behavioural data; Experiment in humans.
- Literature
- -Tutorial: Analysis of motor unit discharge characteristics from high-density surface EMG signals, Del Vecchio et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jelekin.2020.102426
-Principles of Neuroscience from Eric R. Kandel, MD
-Motor unit from Heckman and Enoka, DOI: 10.1002/cphy.c100087
-Surface Electromyography, Physiology, Engineering, and Applications Edited by Roberto Merletti and Dario Farina
-Ibanez et al. 2021 J Neurosci https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2908-20.2021
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Schlagwörter: Neurophysiology, Neuroscience, Biosignals Processing
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester WS 2022/2023:
- Movement Neuroscience: Connections between the Brain and Muscles in Humans (MNeuro)
- Institution: Juniorprofessor für Neuromuscular Physiology and Neural Interfacing
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