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List of works by Francesco Negro

A human experimental model of episodic pain.

scientific article published on 13 August 2014

Accessing the neural drive to muscle and translation to neurorehabilitation technologies.

scientific article published on January 2012

Accurate and representative decoding of the neural drive to muscles in humans with multi-channel intramuscular thin-film electrodes

scientific article published in September 2015

Amplitude cancellation of motor-unit action potentials in the surface electromyogram can be estimated with spike-triggered averaging.

scientific article published on 7 May 2008

Associations between Motor Unit Action Potential Parameters and Surface EMG Features

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Characterization of In-Body to On-Body Wireless Radio Frequency Link for Upper Limb Prostheses

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Common synaptic input to motor neurons, motor unit synchronization, and force control.

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Correlation between discharge timings of pairs of motor units reveals the presence but not the proportion of common synaptic input to motor neurons

scientific article published on 18 January 2017

Decorrelation of cortical inputs and motoneuron output

scientific article published on July 27, 2011

Detecting the unique representation of motor-unit action potentials in the surface electromyogram

scientific article published on 21 May 2008

Differential Motor Unit Changes after Endurance or High-Intensity Interval Training.

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Does vibration superimposed on low-level isometric contraction alter motor unit recruitment strategy?

scientific article published on 22 August 2018

Estimating reflex responses in large populations of motor units by decomposition of the high-density surface electromyogram

scientific article published on 2 August 2015

Estimation of muscle fiber conduction velocity with a spectral multidip approach

scientific article published in September 2007

Exogenous neuromodulation of spinal neurons induces beta-band coherence during self-sustained discharge of hind limb motor unit populations

scientific article published on 18 July 2019

Experimental analysis of accuracy in the identification of motor unit spike trains from high-density surface EMG.

scientific article published on 8 February 2010

Factors influencing the estimates of correlation between motor unit activities in humans.

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Fluctuations in isometric muscle force can be described by one linear projection of low-frequency components of motor unit discharge rates

scientific article published in December 2009

High-density EMG E-Textile systems for the control of active prostheses

scientific article published on 01 January 2010

High-density surface EMG decomposition allows for recording of motor unit discharge from proximal and distal flexion synergy muscles simultaneously in individuals with stroke

scientific article published on January 2014

Higher muscle fiber conduction velocity and early rate of torque development in chronically strength trained individuals

scientific article published on 19 July 2018

Identification of common synaptic inputs to motor neurons from the rectified electromyogram

scientific article published on 18 March 2013

Impaired regulation post-stroke of motor unit firing behavior during volitional relaxation of knee extensor torque assessed using high density surface EMG decomposition.

scientific article published on August 2015

Increased HCN channel driven inward rectification in benign cramp fasciculation syndrome.

scientific article published on 5 September 2015

Ischemic Conditioning Increases Strength and Volitional Activation of Paretic Muscle in Chronic Stroke: A Pilot Study

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Limitations of the spike-triggered averaging for estimating motor unit twitch force: a theoretical analysis

scientific article published on 25 March 2014

Linear transmission of cortical oscillations to the neural drive to muscles is mediated by common projections to populations of motoneurons in humans

scientific article published on 6 December 2010

Low-frequency oscillations of the neural drive to the muscle are increased with experimental muscle pain

scientific article published on November 2, 2011

Motor unit discharge rate and the estimated synaptic input to the vasti muscles is higher in open compared with closed kinetic chain exercise

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Motor unit recruitment strategies and muscle properties determine the influence of synaptic noise on force steadiness

scientific article published on March 14, 2012

Multi-channel intramuscular and surface EMG decomposition by convolutive blind source separation

scientific article published on 29 February 2016

Multimodal BCI-mediated FES suppression of pathological tremor.

scientific article published in January 2010

Neural correlates of task-related changes in physiological tremor.

scientific article published on 17 April 2013

Oscillations in neural drive and age-related reductions in force steadiness with a cognitive challenge

scientific article published on 28 February 2019

Power spectrum of the rectified EMG: Influence of motor unit action potential shapes

scientific article published on 01 January 2014

Power spectrum of the rectified EMG: when and why is rectification beneficial for identifying neural connectivity?

scientific article published on 27 April 2015

Principles of Motor Unit Physiology Evolve With Advances in Technology.

scientific article published on March 2016

Properties of the motor unit action potential shape in proximal and distal muscles of the upper limb in healthy and post-stroke individuals.

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Reciprocal inhibition between motor neurons of the tibialis anterior and triceps surae in humans.

scientific article published on 31 January 2018

Reply from Dario Farina, Francesco Negro and Ning Jiang

scientific article published on 01 January 2014

Robust estimation of average twitch contraction forces of populations of motor units in humans

scientific article published on 18 October 2017

Spatial correlation of high density EMG signals provides features robust to electrode number and shift in pattern recognition for myocontrol

scientific article published on 6 November 2014

Spatial distribution of surface action potentials generated by individual motor units in the human biceps brachii muscle

scientific article published on April 22, 2013

Spike-triggered averaging provides inaccurate estimates of motor unit twitch properties under optimal conditions

scientific article published on 22 September 2018

Stroke Increases Ischemia-related Decreases in Motor Unit Discharge Rates

scientific article published on 31 October 2018

Surface EMG amplitude does not identify differences in neural drive to synergistic muscles.

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The effective neural drive to muscles is the common synaptic input to motor neurons.

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The human motor neuron pools receive a dominant slow-varying common synaptic input

scientific article published on 21 June 2016

The optimal neural strategy for a stable motor task requires a compromise between level of muscle cocontraction and synaptic gain of afferent feedback.

scientific article published on 22 July 2015

The proportion of common synaptic input to motor neurons increases with an increase in net excitatory input.

scientific article published on 24 September 2015

Theoretical Model and Experimental Validation of the estimated proportions of common and independent input to motor neurons.

scientific article published on August 2015

Tracking motor units longitudinally across experimental sessions with high-density surface electromyography.

scientific article published on 28 December 2016