Similarity of hand muscle synergies elicited by transcranial magnetic stimulation and those found during voluntary movement
- 1 October 2022
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physiological Society in Journal of Neurophysiology
- Vol. 128 (4) , 994-1010
Abstract
This is the first work to examine the similarity of modularity in hand muscle responses to transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) of the motor cortex and that derived from voluntary hand movement. We show that TMS-elicited muscle synergies of the hand, measured at rest, reflect those found in voluntary behavior involving finger fractionation. This work provides a basis for future work using TMS to investigate muscle activation modularity in the human motor system.Keywords
Funding Information
- HHS | NIH | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NS092268)
- HHS | NIH | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R01NS085122)
- HHS | NIH | Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (2R01HD058301)
- HHS | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences (P41 GM103545-18)
- HHS | NIH | National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (R01DC009834)
- National Science Foundation (ISS-1149570)
- National Science Foundation (CNS-1544895)
- National Science Foundation (CBET-1804550)
- National Science Foundation (CMMI-1935336)
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