Mechanisms underlying firing in healthy and sick human motoneurons

• Main Author: Annie Schmied (auth)
• Other Authors: Parveen N S Bawa (auth), Maria Piotrkiewicz (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; motor unit; human motoneuron discharge mechanisms; axon and peripheral afferents; excitability; afterhyperpolarization and delayed depolarization; Recruitment and rate coding; motoneuron pathology; Double and triple discharges
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Since the latter half of the twentieth century an enormous amount of knowledge about mammalian motoneuron pools has been collected. This progress was enabled mostly by the development of the precise techniques of intracellular recordings in acute animal experiments, many of which were conducted unde...