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Muscle length influences active joint position sense at the shoulder, but conditioning contractions do not
Muscle length influences active joint position sense at the shoulder, but conditioning contractions do not
Active shoulder joint position sense (JPS) is more accurate at higher angles of humerothoracic elevation. During active JP...
Effect of force-rate on continuous kinesthetic force discrimination
Effect of force-rate on continuous kinesthetic force discrimination
The effect of force-rate, i.e., rate of change of force stimuli, on continuous kinesthetic force perception has not been i...
The sign of exploration during reward-based motor learning is not independent from trial to trial
The sign of exploration during reward-based motor learning is not independent from trial to trial
Humans can learn various motor tasks based on binary reward feedback on whether a movement attempt was successful or not. ...
The effects of anticipation of standing surface translations on distal leg muscle excitations
The effects of anticipation of standing surface translations on distal leg muscle excitations
This study aimed to investigate the interactions between anticipation and direction of surface translations applied during...
Retinal vessel density and cognitive function in healthy older adults
Retinal vessel density and cognitive function in healthy older adults
The eye is considered a gateway to the brain, as the retina is the only tissue of the central nervous system not protected...
Do people only adjust ongoing movements vigorously when it is advantageous to do so?
Do people only adjust ongoing movements vigorously when it is advantageous to do so?
We previously found that arm movements towards a jittering target are constantly guided by the latest target position: the...
Video head impulse test and seasickness susceptibility
Video head impulse test and seasickness susceptibility
Seasickness can have a devastating effect on a crewmember’s well-being. In the literature, there is a controversy ab...
Parkinson’s disease impairs the controllability of imagined action sequences
Parkinson’s disease impairs the controllability of imagined action sequences
Parkinson’s Disease (PD) leads to deficits in motor control that may stem in part from impaired processing of action...
Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation combined with physical exercise increases postural sway in Parkinson’s disease: a double-blind and cross-over study
Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation combined with physical exercise increases postural sway in Parkinson’s disease: a double-blind and cross-over study
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has shown promising effects on postural control in people with Parkinson...
Perceptions and trunk movements elicited by trunk muscle vibration in young adults in static position
Perceptions and trunk movements elicited by trunk muscle vibration in young adults in static position
The present study aimed to investigate whether proprioceptive stimulation by means of multiple muscle vibration (MV) can i...
Modulation of individual and synchronized activities of ankle plantarflexors during quiet standing in aroused emotions
Modulation of individual and synchronized activities of ankle plantarflexors during quiet standing in aroused emotions
Emotions influence postural control, but previous studies have mainly examined postural dynamics during quiet standing usi...
Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation over the posterior parietal cortex on tactile spatial discrimination
Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation over the posterior parietal cortex on tactile spatial discrimination
The posterior parietal cortex (PPC) plays an important role in discriminating tactile spatial information. Dual-hemisphere...
Disturbances in human position sense during alterations in gravity: a parabolic flight experiment
Disturbances in human position sense during alterations in gravity: a parabolic flight experiment
Under conditions of weightlessness human position sense appears to deteriorate. This was tested, employing three methods o...
Body weight and attentional capture in children
Body weight and attentional capture in children
The present study examined whether numerical representations of body weight capture visual attention in young children. De...
Darbepoetin alpha has neuroprotective effects in the hippocampus against long-term intermittent ethanol administration
Darbepoetin alpha has neuroprotective effects in the hippocampus against long-term intermittent ethanol administration
The consumption of ethanol has detrimental effects on several organs, including the brain. One of the most important targe...
Unraveling the role of brain renin angiotensin system in vascular dementia: mechanisms and therapeutic perspectives
Unraveling the role of brain renin angiotensin system in vascular dementia: mechanisms and therapeutic perspectives
Dementia is a heterogeneous syndrome characterized by the progressive deterioration of various brain functions, severely i...
A wide-ranging review of galvanic vestibular stimulation: from its genesis to basic science and clinical applications
A wide-ranging review of galvanic vestibular stimulation: from its genesis to basic science and clinical applications
Galvanic vestibular stimulation (GVS) involves applying small electrical currents to the vestibular organs via electrodes ...
Effects of experimentally induced lumbar nociception on trunk motor control in the rat during locomotion
Effects of experimentally induced lumbar nociception on trunk motor control in the rat during locomotion
Nociception resulting in pain perception might be one of the factors contributing to the motor control changes in people w...
How psychological and descriptive narratives modulate the perception of facial emotional expressions: an event-related potentials (ERPs) study
How psychological and descriptive narratives modulate the perception of facial emotional expressions: an event-related potentials (ERPs) study
The aim of the present study was to investigate whether stories with high and low narrative transport exert different effe...
Effects of exercise-targeted hippocampal PDE-4 methylation on synaptic plasticity and spatial learning/memory impairments in D-galactose-induced aging rats
Effects of exercise-targeted hippocampal PDE-4 methylation on synaptic plasticity and spatial learning/memory impairments in D-galactose-induced aging rats
Physical exercise reduces the effects of aging and cognitive decline by improving synaptic plasticity and spatial learning...
Investigation of non-invasive focused ultrasound efficacy on depressive-like behavior in hemiparkinsonian rats
Investigation of non-invasive focused ultrasound efficacy on depressive-like behavior in hemiparkinsonian rats
Depression is a common non-motor symptom in Parkinson’s disease (PD) that includes anhedonia and impacts quality of ...
The ultrastructure of macaque mesencephalic trigeminal nucleus neurons
The ultrastructure of macaque mesencephalic trigeminal nucleus neurons
Primary afferents originating from the mesencephalic trigeminal nucleus provide the main source of proprioceptive informat...
Reliability of a TMS-derived threshold matrix of corticomotor function
Reliability of a TMS-derived threshold matrix of corticomotor function
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) studies typically focus on suprathreshold motor evoked potentials (MEPs), overlook...
scAAV9-VEGF alleviates symptoms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) mice through regulating aromatase
scAAV9-VEGF alleviates symptoms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) mice through regulating aromatase
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is an adult-onset, chronic, progressive, and fatal neurodegenerative disease that lead...
Top-down control of vestibular inputs by the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
Top-down control of vestibular inputs by the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
The vestibular apparatus provides spatial information on the position of the head in space and with respect to gravity. Lo...
Space for power: feeling powerful over others’ behavior affects peri-personal space representation
Space for power: feeling powerful over others’ behavior affects peri-personal space representation
We investigated whether and how social power affects the representation of peri-personal space (PPS). We applied a multise...
Low-load blood flow restriction reduces time-to-minimum single motor unit discharge rate
Low-load blood flow restriction reduces time-to-minimum single motor unit discharge rate
Resistance training with low loads in combination with blood flow restriction (BFR) facilitates increases in muscle size a...
Long period changes of hippocampal diffusion kurtosis imaging and its correlation with cognitive dysfunction after incomplete cerebral ischemia–reperfusion in rats
Long period changes of hippocampal diffusion kurtosis imaging and its correlation with cognitive dysfunction after incomplete cerebral ischemia–reperfusion in rats
This study aims to summarize the changes of functional diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) parameters in the bilateral hippoc...
More implicit and more explicit motor imagery tasks for exploring the mental representation of hands and feet in action
More implicit and more explicit motor imagery tasks for exploring the mental representation of hands and feet in action
The mental representation of the body in action can be explored using motor imagery (MI) tasks. MI tasks can be allocated ...
The NR2B-targeted intervention alleviates the neuronal injuries at the sub-acute stage of cerebral ischemia: an exploration of stage-dependent strategy against ischemic insults
The NR2B-targeted intervention alleviates the neuronal injuries at the sub-acute stage of cerebral ischemia: an exploration of stage-dependent strategy against ischemic insults
Stroke is reported to be the second leading cause of death worldwide, among which ischemic stroke has fourfold greater inc...
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