• Theta activity and some delta sharp waves become present (mostly in the temporal lobe). (studystack.com)
  • This type of seizure often occurs in the area of the brain that controls emotion and memory function (temporal lobe). (hopkinsmedicine.org)
  • Latreille V, Avigdor T, Thomas J, Crane J, Sziklas V, Jones-Gotman M, Frauscher B . Scalp and hippocampal sleep correlates of memory function in drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy. (anphylab.com)
  • Atypical intrinsic neural timescales in temporal lobe epilepsy. (anphylab.com)
  • In June 2018, his surgical team, who Kathy calls "amazing," completed ablation on his right medial temporal lobe. (rchsd.org)
  • The memory loss associated with bilateral and nondominant unilateral ECT was assessed with verbal memory tests known to be sensitive to left temporal lobe dysfunction. (healthyplace.com)
  • It has been suggested that the amnesic effects of left or right unilateral ECT may be similar to the effects of left or right temporal lobe dysfunction (18). (healthyplace.com)
  • Accordingly, if memory were assessed with nonverbal tests specifically sensitive to right temporal lobe dysfunction, the amnesic effect of right unilateral ECT might prove to be as great as or even greater than that of bilateral ECT. (healthyplace.com)
  • Assessments of memory were made with two verbal tests known to be sensitive to left temporal lobe dysfunctions and two nonverbal tests known to be sensitive to right temporal lobe dysfunction. (healthyplace.com)
  • Later work included studies of spatio-temporal chaos, 14,15 noise-sustained wave patterns, 16 and feedback control of waves. (aip.org)
  • General activation spread was reproduced (median correlation coefficient, 0.72-0.78 for activation time maps after spatio-temporal smoothing). (ox.ac.uk)
  • However the spatio-temporal variability of recovered electrograms limit resolution and must constrain the accuracy with which arrhythmia circuits can be identified independently using this approach. (ox.ac.uk)
  • and (3) Analysis of center of mass COM kinematics (relative maximum COM Motion, Recovery Time and Margin of Stability) and spatio-temporal parameters (Step Length and Swing Time). (biomedcentral.com)
  • The BrainAmp ExG MR is a bipolar amplifier which means that the potential difference between a pair of electrodes is measured. (brainproducts.com)
  • Typically, EMGs are sampled with a single pair of electrodes, providing information on the timing and degree of muscle excitation. (polito.it)
  • For perfusion of the skinflap and to ensure revascularization during the subdural maneuver, the posterior incision line is designed to preserve about 8 cm of the parietal branch of the superficial temporal artery (STA). (surgicalneurologyint.com)
  • Bilateral surface electromyographic activities of anterior and posterior temporal, masseter and suprahyoid muscles were analyzed at rest and during clenching, before and after four weeks using the occlusal splints. (bvsalud.org)
  • Aim and objective: The purpose of this work is to investigate by electromyographic (EMG) surface analysis whether and how the variations in the occlusion due to the correction of the posterior crossbite using a rapid palatal expander (RPE) is accompanied by changes in the activity of the elevator muscles in the pediatric patients. (unimib.it)
  • Epilepsia partialis continua is a rare type of simple focal motor status epilepticus characterized by continuous, involuntary focal muscle jerking of mainly cortical origin occurring at least every 10 seconds for at least 1 hour and not impairing awareness. (medlink.com)
  • This large unilateral cranial window can be used to study the neural dynamics between cells, as well as between different cortical areas by combining multi-electrode electrophysiological recordings, imaging of neuronal activity (e.g., intrinsic or extrinsic imaging), and optogenetic stimulation. (bvsalud.org)
  • The sheet-shaped μECoG electrodes arrays can be placed on a relatively wide area of cortical surface beneath the skull by inserting the device into the space between skull and brain. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Recording cortical activity from the temporal region of cortex in mice has proven difficult because of surgical barriers created by the skull and surrounding temporalis muscle anatomy. (biomedcentral.com)
  • These data indicate that our μECoG device and surgical techniques enable the recording of large-scale cortical activity from the parietal to temporal cortex in mice, including somatosensory and olfactory cortices. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Results: The left and right temporal and masseter muscles sensitivity decreased after using both splints. (bvsalud.org)
  • Based on the connection between stressful activity and TMD, this study suggests that the effect of two different occlusal splints on the temporal, masseter and suprahyoid muscles of police officers with TMD be evaluated based on clinical symptoms and electromyographic activity. (bvsalud.org)
  • In the last 10 years, several studies demonstrated the effectiveness and reproducibility of surface EMG in the objective evaluation of temporal muscle and masseter activity and how this evidence can bean interesting aid in dental clinical practice. (unimib.it)
  • In this case report, EMG was used to evaluate the temporal muscle and masseter activity immediately before, immediately after, and 4 months after the RPE protocol. (unimib.it)
  • Clinical significance: Electromyography is a noninvasive exam which evaluates the masticatory muscle activity by facial application of electrodes on masseter and temporal muscles. (unimib.it)
  • This protocol introduces a method for creating a substantially larger 7 mm x 6 mm cranial window exposing most of a cerebral hemisphere over the mouse temporal and parietal cortices (e.g., bregma 2.5 - 4.5 mm, lateral 0 - 6 mm). (bvsalud.org)
  • Lateral eye movements most affect lateral frontal electrodes F7 and F8 (see images below). (medscape.com)
  • The lateral temporal region did not change significantly (mean difference [95% CI], 0.14 bits [−0.03 to 0.30], P = 0.100). (asahq.org)
  • found units activated differentially in supination, flexion, or a combination of the two in the lateral, medial, and central part of the muscle, respectively. (jneurosci.org)
  • Each wing is moved up by the contraction of a medial row of vertical elevators and moved down partly by elasticity ( Weis-Fogh, 1959 ), partly by a dorsal longitudinal depressor muscle and, finally, by a lateral row of vertical depressor muscles which also control the twisting (two basalar and one subalar on each side in each segment). (biologists.com)
  • This selectivity is achieved with a specialized concentric needle electrode with a 25-μm diameter recording surface located in a side port 3mm from the needle tip. (duke.edu)
  • The μECoG device with high-density multi-channel electrodes and fabricated by semiconductor technology enables the simultaneous recording of local field potentials (LFPs) from multiple regions in cerebral cortex with high spatiotemporal resolution [ 15 , 16 , 17 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Here, we developed a sheet-shaped 64-channel μECoG device that allows access to the mouse temporal cortex, and we determined the factor determining the appropriate bending stiffness for the μECoG electrode array. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Compute the time series spatial-temporal correlation between a MRI registered region of interest (ROI) and other regions of the brain. (appliedneuroscience.com)
  • View the strength of spatial-temporal correlation in 2-D color contour maps that order the distance from the reference ROI in centimeters over 1 to 40 Hz. (appliedneuroscience.com)
  • Changes in gait characteristics (ie, stability, walking speed, spatial-temporal, kinematic, and muscle forces) across inclination angles were assessed using a repeated measures ANOVA and the Friedman test. (jmir.org)
  • 001). Changes were observed in spatial-temporal parameters, joint angles, and muscle activations depending on the treadmill inclination. (jmir.org)
  • In contrast, downhill walking resulted in bilateral reductions in spatial-temporal gait parameters, with knee flexion increasing and hip flexion and ankle dorsiflexion decreasing. (jmir.org)
  • These waveforms represent motor unit potentials as typically observed on needle electrode examination during electromyogram, with a frequency of 20-100 Hz. (medscape.com)
  • for the bimodally tuned anterior deltoid (AD), a muscle whose two best directions closely corresponded to the activity peaks of two unimodally tuned subpopulations of SMUs. (jneurosci.org)
  • The EEG data for this second entropy measurement were recorded by two anterior electrodes: T7Fp3 and T8Fp4 (electrodes placed slightly behind the temples). (caltech.edu)
  • Generally, the potentials generated in the muscles are of shorter duration than those generated in the brain and are identified easily on the basis of duration, morphology, and rate of firing (ie, frequency). (medscape.com)
  • The other source of artifacts comes from EMG potentials from muscles in and around the orbit. (medscape.com)
  • From a single, elite sprinter, we were able to obtain HD-EMGs with negligible movement artifacts and with temporal profiles typically characterizing action potentials of single motor units. (polito.it)
  • Single fiber electromyography (SFEMG) is a highly selective technique that permits assessment of individual muscle fiber action potentials (MFAPs). (duke.edu)
  • Neuromuscular jitter is a direct measure of neuromuscular transmission and reflects the temporal variation in end-plate potentials reaching threshold to elicit a MFAP. (duke.edu)
  • Epicardial potentials were reconstructed during ventricular activation using experiment-specific magnetic resonance imaging-based thorax models, with homogeneous or inhomogeneous (lungs, skeletal muscle, fat) electrical properties. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Frontalis and temporalis muscles (eg, clenching of jaw muscles) are common causes. (medscape.com)
  • A major reason for the limitation in measurement area is the difficulty in the associated operation, since the temporal region of the cortex is covered by skull surrounded with temporalis muscles [ 10 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Most of the skeletal muscular system is arranged into groups of agonists and antagonist muscles that work in concert to provide efficient and controlled motion. (medscape.com)
  • Muscle fibers can broadly be divided into 3 muscles types: skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscle. (medscape.com)
  • Body surface and cardiac electrode positions were determined and registered using magnetic resonance imaging. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Tensiomyography measures the radial displacement of a muscle during an electrically evoked twitch contraction. (plos.org)
  • As such, a twitch provides information on muscle contractile properties and the functioning of the excitation-contraction coupling process. (plos.org)
  • Muscular fatigue causes a slowing of muscle contraction velocity, reversing as the muscle recovers from fatigue [ 21 - 24 ]. (plos.org)
  • This is followed by contraction and relaxation of the muscles (clonic period) and the postictal period. (hopkinsmedicine.org)
  • Here, we report on a novel circuit for the propagation of waves of muscle contraction, using the peristaltic locomotion of Drosophila larvae as a model system. (elifesciences.org)
  • Rhythmic movements such as walking and swimming require the coordinated contraction of many different muscles. (elifesciences.org)
  • Throughout the animal kingdom, from insects to mammals, animals possess specialized circuits of neurons that are responsible for producing these patterns of muscle contraction. (elifesciences.org)
  • A nice 2006 study by Zhurov and Brezina (5) demonstrated in Aplysia that actually, spike timing is crucial in determining both the temporal pattern and the amplitude of muscular contraction, which is a deterministic function of spike pattern. (romainbrette.fr)
  • Through the electromyographic signal it is possible to study the response to the therapeutic exercises commonly used in rehabilitation regarding the beginning and end of the activity, type of muscle contraction and joint position. (bvsalud.org)
  • Through the EMGs it is possible to observe the degree, duration, type of muscle contraction, alteration of the composition of the motor units resulting from muscle training programs, recruitment neural strategies, as well as allowing inferences related to muscle fatigue. (bvsalud.org)
  • It also means that the electromyographic signal becomes a useful tool for analyzing the outcome of physiotherapeutic treatments because it provides easy access to the physiological processes that make the muscle generate strength, produce movement, and perform numerous functions that allow us to make relevant inferences regarding biomechanics of human movements. (bvsalud.org)
  • We also established a surgical technique to implant the electrode arrays into the epidural space over a wide area of cerebral cortex covering from the barrel field to olfactory (piriform) cortex, which is the deepest region of the cerebral cortex. (biomedcentral.com)
  • SFEMG is the most sensitive clinical test for neuromuscular junction disease and is often abnormal in clinically unaffected muscles in patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) and Lambert-Eaton myasthenia (LEM). (duke.edu)
  • Use the Adaptive Gabor Transform and Complex Demodulation to analyze the fine temporal detail of the EEG. (appliedneuroscience.com)
  • The objective of this study was to analyze trunk muscle coordination of individuals with thoracic SCI and compare it to able-body individuals. (researchgate.net)
  • Therefore, to accurately analyze the entropy in the EEG data three things must be specified: 1) which entropy measure to use, 2) which time intervals of the EEG data to use, and 3) what locations on the participant's scalp (choice of EEG electrodes) to use. (caltech.edu)
  • Observed variability in muscle coordination within SCI groups also suggests that other mechanisms such as spasticity and muscle stretch reflexes or individual factors such as experience and training contributed to the postural muscle synergies. (researchgate.net)
  • Another disorder that can produce repetitive muscle artifacts is hemifacial spasm. (medscape.com)
  • Using a bipolar longitudinal montage, maximum positivity in electrode F7 and maximum negativity in electrode F8 is recorded, and artifacts do not occur in channels 9 and 13 or 10 and 14. (medscape.com)
  • The muscles that control breathing and neck and limb movements can also be affected. (doctorbhatia.com)
  • The directional aspects of everyday reaching movements are manifold, requiring a versatility that might make it necessary to allow for task-specific, differential activation of different subunits of the same muscle, resulting in deviations from a fixed recruitment order. (jneurosci.org)
  • For example, measures of arousal or muscle movements could provide complementary data. (brainproducts.com)
  • We investigate basic neuromuscular mechanisms mediating movements and their changes underlying both acute adjustments (e.g. muscle fatigue) and chronic adaptations (e.g. training, stroke) (movement neurophysiology). (isek-online.org)
  • This type of seizure causes quick movements or sudden jerking of a group of muscles. (hopkinsmedicine.org)
  • Although both biomechanical movements engage the arm's joints and end effector (the hand) to accomplish the end goal, the brain must process these movements differently, because each requires different sensory processes ( 1 - 3 ) and force dynamics (i.e., when to flex and extend the joint muscles) ( 4 - 7 ). (biorxiv.org)
  • This paper explains which muscles you should contract and in which order so as to produce certain movements efficiently, using elementary mechanical considerations (ie, we do not need muscle physiology). (romainbrette.fr)
  • Large muscle group movements during sleep in healthy people: normative values and correlation to sleep features. (anphylab.com)
  • From the radial displacement curve, spatial and temporal parameters are derived. (plos.org)
  • Uphill walking also led to a decrease in spatial parameters by at least 13.53% and a 5.26% to 10.96% increase in temporal parameters. (jmir.org)
  • The seizure activity is limited to an isolated muscle group. (hopkinsmedicine.org)
  • With an atonic seizure, your child has a sudden loss of muscle tone and may fall from a standing position or suddenly drop his or her head. (hopkinsmedicine.org)
  • A generalized seizure occurs when a burst of electrical energy sweeps through the whole brain at once, causing a loss of consciousness, falls, convulsions or muscle spasms. (massgeneral.org)
  • Dm provides information on skeletal muscle stiffness, morphological and structural changes [ 2 - 4 ]. (plos.org)
  • During downward eye movement the positive pole (ie, cornea) of the globe moves away from frontopolar electrodes, producing an upward deflection best recorded in channels 1 and 5 in the bipolar longitudinal montage. (medscape.com)
  • In most cases, this therapy balances the masticatory muscles' activity and reduces bruxism and TMD symptoms 7 . (bvsalud.org)
  • Orofacial disorders are problems that affect the temporomandibular joint and the masticatory muscles that connect the lower jaw and the skull. (capenergy.com)
  • Most often, the pain is located in the area of the temporomandibular joint and the masticatory muscles. (capenergy.com)
  • The Multitrode MR electrodes are intended for surface EMG and all recommendation that we provide in this article are for sEMG. (brainproducts.com)
  • Surface electromyograms (EMGs) have been often used to study muscle function in locomotor activities. (polito.it)
  • Objective To describe the movement patterns of people with mcSCI compared to controls by characterizing the muscle activation patterns and kinematics of the trunk and upper-body during boxing and battle rope exercise. (researchgate.net)
  • The complex task of coordinating the activation of the appropriate fibers in a given muscle appears, in many instances, to be fulfilled automatically. (jneurosci.org)
  • Because of the orderly relation between the size of an MN and the mechanical and biochemical properties of its target muscle fibers ( Burke, 1967 ), such size-ordered recruitment results in a smoothly graded force rise with minimal fatigue development. (jneurosci.org)
  • FD measurements assess the local concentration of muscle fibers within a motor unit and provide a sensitive in vivo assessment of reinnervation. (duke.edu)
  • Likewise, the number of muscle fibers within each of these, as well as the shape of muscles (depending on their function), can also vary greatly. (medscape.com)
  • What remains constant, however, is that the muscle fibers are aligned in the same direction so that individual muscle fibers can work in concert. (medscape.com)
  • When the muscles fibers and the associated tendon are arranged along the same axis, the muscle is termed a parallel muscle. (medscape.com)
  • Bipennate muscles have muscles fibers inserting at an angle on both sides of a central tendon. (medscape.com)
  • Each muscle fascicle represents a group of muscle fibers bound together by a layer of connective tissue termed the perimysium. (medscape.com)
  • Only 60% of the axons in the nerve to a given muscle are motor to the muscle fibers that make up the bulk of the muscle. (medscape.com)
  • The nerve supply branches within the muscle belly, forming a plexus from which groups of axons emerge to supply the muscle fibers. (medscape.com)
  • The axons supply single motor endplates placed about halfway along the muscle fibers. (medscape.com)
  • A motor unit comprises a motor neuron in the spinal cord or brainstem together with the squad of muscle fibers it innervates. (medscape.com)
  • In large muscles (eg, the flexors of the hip or knee), each motor unit contains 1200 or more muscle fibers. (medscape.com)
  • Muscle fibers are long and cylindrical in shape. (medscape.com)
  • and (4) overall spatial extent and intensity of brain complexity, was quantified by calculating median temporal complexity of channels whose complexities were above 1 at baseline. (asahq.org)
  • Moreover, the most common methods that use head fixation in rats and mice, such as the ear bars used in craniotomy and the head-fixation plate [ 11 ], interferes with microscopy and electrode implantation for large-scale recordings of the temporal cortex. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Muscle coordination was assessed using the non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) method to extract muscle modules, which are the synergistic trunk muscle activations, and their directional activation patterns. (researchgate.net)
  • Investigating the effects of self-paced inclined treadmill walking on gait stability characteristics and the activation patterns of key lower limb muscles can provide insights into these strategies. (jmir.org)
  • It manifests with repetitive, regular, or irregular localized clonic muscle twitching, lasting for a few milliseconds and repeated at least every 10 seconds for hours, days, or months without impairment of consciousness. (medlink.com)
  • Normal jitter findings in a clinically weak muscle exclude neuromuscular junction disease as a cause for weakness in that muscle. (duke.edu)
  • Although less clinically tested and proven than temporal lobectomy, Garrett opted for laser ablation, which is minimally invasive and does not present the same risk of language and memory complications. (rchsd.org)
  • Recruitment of motor units in the medial gastrocnemius muscle during human quiet standing: is recruitment intermittent? (isek-online.org)
  • Cylindrical muscles typically have greater mass at the center of the muscle, leading to a central body or muscle belly (eg, biceps brachii). (medscape.com)
  • 1 After sustaining a spinal cord injury (SCI), denervation of trunk muscles can dramatically impair seated balance control and severely limit range of stability. (researchgate.net)
  • The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of self-paced inclined treadmill walking on gait stability characteristics and the activation of key lower limb muscles. (jmir.org)
  • The results suggest that inclined treadmill walking has the potential to serve as a functional assessment and rehabilitation tool for gait stability by targeting muscle training. (jmir.org)
  • Our results would seem to advocate the possibility of using HD-EMG to study muscle function during highly dynamic contractions outside the laboratory settings. (polito.it)
  • Our results showed that individuals with SCI used less muscle modules, more co-contractions, and less directional tuning, compared to able-bodied people. (researchgate.net)
  • Temporal complexity of the electroencephalogram may be a sensitive indicator of these effects. (asahq.org)
  • This study measured psychometric performance and the temporal complexity of the electroencephalogram in participants breathing low-dose nitrous oxide. (asahq.org)
  • We utilize auxiliary individual electroencephalogram (EEG) recorded from wet electrode for cross-device transfer learning via the proposed framework named ALign and Pool for EEG Headset domain Adaptation (ALPHA), which aligns the SSVEP features by domain adaptation. (embs.org)
  • In addition to muscle activity, the tongue (like the eyeball) functions as a dipole, with the tip negative with respect to the base. (medscape.com)
  • Muscles become progressively weaker during periods of activity and improve after periods of rest. (doctorbhatia.com)
  • The directional activity of whole muscles has been shown to be broadly and often multimodally tuned, raising the question of how this tuning is subserved at the level of single motor units (SMUs). (jneurosci.org)
  • Previously defined rules of SMU activation would predict that units of the same muscle (or at least of the same neuromuscular compartment) are activated homogeneously with activity peaks in the same "best" direction(s). (jneurosci.org)
  • Flanders and Soechting, 1990 ), the SMUs of these muscles would be more narrowly tuned, with subpopulations of SMUs showing activity peaks for different directions. (jneurosci.org)
  • Participants were seated and asked to lean their trunk in eight directions while trunk muscle activity was recorded. (researchgate.net)
  • Multimodal brain imaging studies using EEG and fMRI are very popular due to the advantage of simultaneous measurements using different temporal and spatial scales. (brainproducts.com)
  • Joint flexibility can be improved through appropriate MUSCLE STRETCHING EXERCISES. (lookformedical.com)
  • The temporomandibular joint connects the temporal bone of the skull to the jaw bone on both sides of the head. (capenergy.com)
  • And the size varies according to the medical requirements: smaller electrodes to access the joint from the inside of the oral cavity and accessories with dimensions ranging from 20 to 50cm2 for an external approach, on the skin. (capenergy.com)
  • This study leverages transfer learning to improve the performance for steady-state visual evoked potential based brain-computer interface (SSVEP-BCI) implemented by dry electrodes. (embs.org)
  • The brain information processing that occurs during a recall task has informational, temporal and spatial properties. (caltech.edu)
  • Electrodes chosen for this EEG data analysis should correspond with the way that information moves through the brain during the first 300 ms of the recall task. (caltech.edu)
  • The novelties of these findings indicate that EMGs can be used as an indicator of the onset of muscle activation (as found in most studies), its relationship to the force produced and its use as an index of fatigue processes. (bvsalud.org)
  • For example, during axial locomotion such as lamprey swimming and Drosophila larval crawling, muscles present in each segment are sequentially activated along the body axis in a stereotypic temporal and spatial pattern ( Grillner, 2003 ). (elifesciences.org)
  • For bipolar measurements (e.g. sEMG, ECG) Multitrode MR electrodes should be used because they have some special features that make them suitable for use in the MR environment: they have a current-limiting resistor, they are an incomplete ring to avoid induced eddy currents, and are bundled in a spiral tube so that the lead wire cannot come into direct contact with the participant (Figure 3). (brainproducts.com)
  • Gross inspection of a skeletal muscle reveals collections of muscle fascicles surrounded by a layer connective tissue termed the epimysium. (medscape.com)
  • Range of motion is a function of the condition of the joints, muscles, and connective tissues involved. (lookformedical.com)
  • SEEGAtlas: A framework for the identification and classification of depth electrodes using clinical images. (anphylab.com)
  • Each volunteer filled out a visual analog pain scale (VAPS) questionnaire to evaluate muscle pain sensibility. (bvsalud.org)
  • Motor points have been identified for all major muscle groups for the purpose of functional electrical stimulation by physical therapists, in order to increase muscle power. (medscape.com)
  • ALPHA significantly outperformed the competing methods in two transfer directions, and boosted the dry-electrode systems using wet-electrode EEG. (embs.org)
  • In myasthenic crisis a paralysis of the respiratory muscles occurs, necessitating assisted ventilation to sustain life. (doctorbhatia.com)
  • In patients whose respiratory muscles are already weak, crises may be triggered by infection, fever, an adverse reaction to medication, or emotional stress. (doctorbhatia.com)
  • These alterations can be related to daytime or night time teeth clenching (bruxism) which can also cause thickening of the face muscles, as well as excessive wear or mobility of the teeth. (capenergy.com)
  • Spinal cord injury (SCI) can result in paralysis of trunk muscles, which can affect sitting balance. (researchgate.net)
  • Electromyogram (muscle) artifact best observed in the left temporal region. (medscape.com)
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  • Additional information may be obtained when sampling EMGs with multiple electrodes from the same, target muscles. (polito.it)
  • These findings mean that EMGs has been used by physiotherapists to demonstrate muscle response to neural stimuli in a non-invasive manner. (bvsalud.org)