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"Real-time" imaging of cortical and subcortical sites of cardiovascular control: concurrent recordings of sympathetic nerve activity and fMRI in awake subjects

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A Review of Control Strategies in Closed-Loop Neuroprosthetic Systems

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A consensus statement on osseoperception.

scientific article published in January 2005

A role for the sympathetic nervous system in sympathetically maintained pain?

scientific article published on 15 March 2010

Absence of short-term vestibular modulation of muscle sympathetic outflow, assessed by brief galvanic vestibular stimulation in awake human subjects.

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Acid-sensing ion channels blockade attenuates pressor and sympathetic responses to skeletal muscle metaboreflex activation in humans

scientific article published on 23 September 2019

Allodynia mediated by C‐tactile afferents in human hairy skin ⬇️

scientific article published on July 4, 2011

Altered brainstem anatomy in migraine.

scientific article published in January 2017

Anatomical Changes in Human Motor Cortex and Motor Pathways following Complete Thoracic Spinal Cord Injury

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Assessing the capacity of the sympathetic nervous system to respond to a cardiovascular challenge in human spinal cord injury

scientific article published on 08 April 2008

Assessing the integrity of sympathetic pathways in spinal cord injury

scientific article published on 23 February 2007

Asymmetric sympathetic output: The dorsomedial hypothalamus as a potential link between emotional stress and cardiac arrhythmias

scientific article published on 17 January 2017

Autonomic dysreflexia: Somatosympathetic and viscerosympathetic vasoconstrictor responses to innocuous and noxious sensory stimulation below lesion in human spinal cord injury

scientific article published on 13 July 2017

Autonomic markers of emotional processing: skin sympathetic nerve activity in humans during exposure to emotionally charged images.

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Autonomic responses to exercise: cortical and subcortical responses during post-exercise ischaemia and muscle pain.

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Baroreflex modulation of muscle sympathetic nerve activity at rest does not differ between morning and afternoon

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Bilateral activation of the trigeminothalamic tract by acute orofacial cutaneous and muscle pain in humans

scientific article published on 21 August 2010

Biphasic effects of tonic stimulation of muscle nociceptors on skin sympathetic nerve activity in human subjects ⬇️

scientific article published on July 6, 2012

Blood pressure reactivity at onset of mental stress determines sympathetic vascular response in young adults

Brain activity changes associated with pain perception variability

scientific article published in 2022

Brain stem activity changes associated with restored sympathetic drive following CPAP treatment in OSA subjects: a longitudinal investigation.

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Brainstem changes associated with increased muscle sympathetic drive in obstructive sleep apnoea.

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Can loss of muscle spindle afferents explain the ataxic gait in Riley-Day syndrome? ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2011

Cardiorespiratory coupling of sympathetic outflow in humans: a comparison of respiratory and cardiac modulation of sympathetic nerve activity to skin and muscle

scientific article published on 26 April 2013

Cardiovascular and respiratory modulation of tactile afferents in the human finger pad.

scientific article published in September 2003

Cardiovascular variability in Parkinson's disease and extrapyramidal motor slowing.

scientific article published on 25 April 2012

Central circuitry responsible for the divergent sympathetic responses to tonic muscle pain in humans.

scientific article published on 3 October 2016

Central command increases muscle sympathetic nerve activity more to contracting than noncontracting muscle during rhythmic isotonic leg exercise

scientific article published on 13 March 2019

Changes in brainstem pain modulation circuitry function over the migraine cycle

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Changes in skin blood flow, respiration and blood pressure in participants reporting motion sickness during sinusoidal galvanic vestibular stimulation

scientific article published on 03 October 2019

Changes in the spatiotemporal expression of local and referred pain following repeated intramuscular injections of hypertonic saline: a longitudinal study

scientific article published on 15 March 2010

Chapter 11 Microneurography and motor disorders

Comparison of contractile properties of single motor units in human intrinsic and extrinsic finger muscles

scientific article published on 01 July 2000

Comparison of contractile responses of single human motor units in the toe extensors during unloaded and loaded isotonic and isometric conditions.

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Comparison of the ballistic contractile responses generated during microstimulation of single human motor axons with brief irregular and regular stimuli

scientific article published on 11 November 2016

Comparison of the contractile responses to irregular and regular trains of stimuli during microstimulation of single human motor axons

scientific article published on 08 January 2014

Comparison of the firing patterns of human postganglionic sympathetic neurones and spinal alpha motoneurones during brief bursts.

scientific article published in January 2004

Competitive interactions between vestibular and cardiac rhythms in the modulation of muscle sympathetic nerve activity

scientific article published on 02 August 2010

Consistent interindividual increases or decreases in muscle sympathetic nerve activity during experimental muscle pain

scientific article published on 31 January 2014

Contractile properties of single motor units in human toe extensors assessed by intraneural motor axon stimulation

scientific article published on 01 June 1996

Cortical and brain stem changes in neural activity during static handgrip and postexercise ischemia in humans.

scientific article published on 25 February 2010

Cortical influences on brainstem circuitry responsible for conditioned pain modulation in humans

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Cortically evoked neural volleys to the human hand are increased during ischaemic block of the forearm

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Cutaneous vasoconstriction as a measure of incipient autonomic dysreflexia during penile vibratory stimulation in spinal cord injury

scientific article published on 16 December 2008

Deep in the brain: Changes in subcortical function immediately preceding a migraine attack.

scientific article published on 2 March 2018

Diaphragmatic, thoracic and limb motor effects of amyl nitrite inhalation

scientific article published on 01 November 1985

Differential activation of the human trigeminal nuclear complex by noxious and non-noxious orofacial stimulation.

scientific article published in November 2009

Differential sensitivity to surface compliance by tactile afferents in the human finger pad.

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Discharge behaviour of single motor units during maximal voluntary contractions of a human toe extensor

scientific article published on 01 October 2000

Discharge rates and discharge variability of muscle spindle afferents in human chronic spinal cord injury ⬇️

scientific article published on June 20, 2012

Discrete changes in cortical activation during experimentally induced referred muscle pain: a single-trial fMRI study

scientific article published on 13 November 2006

Distinct forebrain activity patterns during deep versus superficial pain.

scientific article published on 19 January 2006

Disturbances in affective touch in hereditary sensory & autonomic neuropathy type III.

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Does sympathetic nerve discharge affect the firing of myelinated cutaneous afferents in humans?

scientific article published on 01 April 2004

Effect of contraction intensity on sympathetic nerve activity to active human skeletal muscle.

scientific article published on 3 June 2014

Effects of 12 Months Continuous Positive Airway Pressure on Sympathetic Activity Related Brainstem Function and Structure in Obstructive Sleep Apnea.

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Effects of changing skin mechanics on the differential sensitivity to surface compliance by tactile afferents in the human finger pad

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Effects of deep and superficial experimentally induced acute pain on muscle sympathetic nerve activity in human subjects

scientific article published on 17 November 2008

Effects of deep and superficial experimentally induced acute pain on skin sympathetic nerve activity in human subjects.

scientific article published on 14 April 2009

Effects of intramuscular anesthesia on the expression of primary and referred pain induced by intramuscular injection of hypertonic saline

scientific article published on 19 April 2009

Effects of static lung inflation on sympathetic activity in human muscle nerves at rest and during asphyxia.

scientific article published on June 1995

Effects of tonic muscle pain on fusimotor control of human muscle spindles during isometric ankle dorsiflexion

scientific article published on 30 January 2019

Elbow proprioception is normal in patients with a congenital absence of functional muscle spindles

scientific article published on 26 May 2020

Electrical signs of cortical involvement in the automatic control of grip force

scientific article published on 01 November 1994

Encoding of object curvature by tactile afferents from human fingers.

scientific article published in December 1997

Endovascular procedures for the treatment of autonomic dysfunction

scientific article published on November 2013

Evidence for strong synaptic coupling between single tactile afferents and motoneurones supplying the human hand.

scientific article published on August 1999

Evidence for strong synaptic coupling between single tactile afferents from the sole of the foot and motoneurons supplying leg muscles

scientific article published on 03 August 2005

Evidence from bilateral recordings of sympathetic nerve activity for lateralisation of vestibular contributions to cardiovascular control.

scientific article published on 19 July 2012

Finding inspiration in high blood pressure.

scientific article published in December 2016

Firing patterns of muscle vasoconstrictor neurons in respiratory disease.

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Firing probability and mean firing rates of human muscle vasoconstrictor neurones are elevated during chronic asphyxia.

scientific article published on 5 January 2010

Firing properties of muscle spindles supplying the intrinsic foot muscles of humans in unloaded and freestanding conditions

scientific article published on 14 November 2018

Firing properties of single muscle vasoconstrictor neurons in the sympathoexcitation associated with congestive heart failure

scientific article published on 01 October 1999

Firing properties of single vasoconstrictor neurones in human subjects with high levels of muscle sympathetic activity.

scientific article published in April 1999

Firing properties of sudomotor neurones in hyperhidrosis and thermal sweating

scientific article published on 06 November 2008

Fluctuating Regional Brainstem Diffusion Imaging Measures of Microstructure across the Migraine Cycle

scientific article published on 25 July 2019

Founder mutation in IKBKAP gene causes vestibular impairment in familial dysautonomia.

scientific article published on 26 November 2017

Functional Imaging of the Human Brainstem during Somatosensory Input and Autonomic Output.

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Functional Properties of Human Muscle Spindles.

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Functional and structural changes in the brain associated with the increase in muscle sympathetic nerve activity in obstructive sleep apnoea

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Functional imaging of the brainstem and cortical sites of autonomic control in human subjects.

scientific article published on 31 July 2012

Gender differences in brain activity evoked by muscle and cutaneous pain: a retrospective study of single-trial fMRI data

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Grey matter volume in adolescents with anorexia nervosa and associated eating disorder symptoms

scientific article published on 22 August 2017

Identification of Sites of Sympathetic Outflow During Concurrent Recordings of Sympathetic Nerve Activity and fMRI ⬇️

scientific article published on July 31, 2012

Identification of sites of sympathetic outflow at rest and during emotional arousal: concurrent recordings of sympathetic nerve activity and fMRI of the brain.

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Impaired sensorimotor control of the hand in congenital absence of functional muscle spindles

scientific article published on 19 September 2018

In-vivo recordings from the human vagus nerve using ultrasound-guided microneurography

scientific article published on 15 June 2020

Increases in muscle sympathetic nerve activity, heart rate, respiration, and skin blood flow during passive viewing of exercise

scientific article published on 11 June 2013

Increasing cutaneous afferent feedback improves proprioceptive accuracy at the knee in patients with sensory ataxia.

scientific article published on 9 December 2015

Individual differences in the cardiovascular responses to tonic muscle pain: parallel increases or decreases in muscle sympathetic nerve activity, blood pressure and heart rate

scientific article published on 11 May 2012

Inhibition of augmented muscle vasoconstrictor drive following asphyxic apnoea in awake human subjects is not affected by relief of chemical drive ⬇️

scientific article published on August 23, 2012

Input-output relationships of a somatosympathetic reflex in human spinal injury

scientific article published on 18 April 2009

Inspiratory augmentation during asphyxic hyperpnoea and gasping: proprioceptive influences

scientific article published on 01 April 1986

Inter-Individual Responses to Experimental Muscle Pain: Baseline Physiological Parameters Do Not Determine Whether Muscle Sympathetic Nerve Activity Increases or Decreases During Pain

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Inter-individual responses to experimental muscle pain: Baseline anxiety ratings and attitudes to pain do not determine the direction of the sympathetic response to tonic muscle pain in humans.

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Intramuscular stimulation of tibialis anterior in human subjects: the effects of discharge variability on force production and fatigue.

scientific article published on August 2017

Joint symbolic dynamics as a model-free approach to study interdependence in cardio-respiratory time series

scientific article published on 01 January 2012

Laryngeal motoneurone activity in the rabbit during asphyxic gasping

scientific article published on 01 December 1987

Loads applied tangential to a fingertip during an object restraint task can trigger short-latency as well as long-latency EMG responses in hand muscles

scientific article published on 26 July 2003

Long-lasting depression of central synaptic transmission following prolonged high-frequency stimulation of cutaneous afferents: a mechanism for post-vibratory hypaesthesia.

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Low-frequency galvanic vestibular stimulation evokes two peaks of modulation in skin sympathetic nerve activity.

scientific article published on 17 April 2012

Low-frequency physiological activation of the vestibular utricle causes biphasic modulation of skin sympathetic nerve activity in humans.

scientific article published on 24 May 2012

Low-frequency sinusoidal galvanic stimulation of the left and right vestibular nerves reveals two peaks of modulation in muscle sympathetic nerve activity

scientific article published on 29 July 2011

Magnitude of Morning Surge in Blood Pressure Is Associated with Sympathetic but Not Cardiac Baroreflex Sensitivity.

scientific article published on 08 September 2016

Mechanisms of sympathoexcitation: single-unit analysis of muscle vasoconstrictor neurons in awake OSAS subjects.

scientific article published in July 2002

Microneurography from the posterior tibial nerve: a novel method of recording activity from the foot in freely standing humans

scientific article published on 06 June 2018

Microstimulation of single human motor axons in the toe extensors: force production during long-lasting trains of irregular and regular stimuli.

scientific article published on 27 February 2017

Modulation of muscle sympathetic activity during spontaneous and artificial ventilation and apnoea in humans.

scientific article published in June 1995

Modulation of muscle sympathetic bursts by sinusoidal galvanic vestibular stimulation in human subjects.

scientific article published on 24 May 2006

Modulation of muscle sympathetic nerve activity by low-frequency physiological activation of the vestibular utricle in awake humans.

scientific article published on 14 July 2013

Modulation of ongoing EMG by different classes of low-threshold mechanoreceptors in the human hand

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Motion sickness is associated with an increase in vestibular modulation of skin but not muscle sympathetic nerve activity

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Motoneuronal output and gradation of effort in attempts to contract acutely paralysed leg muscles in man.

scientific article published in November 1993

Muscle Sympathetic Nerve Activity Is Associated with Liver Insulin Sensitivity in Obese Non-Diabetic Men.

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Muscle spindles in human tibialis anterior encode muscle fascicle length changes.

scientific article published on 11 January 2017

Muscle sympathetic nerve activity and hemodynamic responses to venous distension: does sex play a role?

scientific article published on 28 December 2018

Muscle sympathetic nerve activity peaks in the first trimester in healthy pregnancy: a longitudinal case study.

scientific article published on 3 July 2017

Muscle sympathetic nerve activity-coupled changes in brain activity during sustained muscle pain.

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NECK MOVEMENT BUT NOT NECK POSITION MODULATES SKIN SYMPATHETIC NERVE ACTIVITY SUPPLYING THE LOWER LIMBS OF HUMANS.

scientific article published on 27 December 2017

Neck proprioceptors contribute to the modulation of muscle sympathetic nerve activity to the lower limbs of humans.

scientific article published on 2 April 2014

Neural sites involved in the sustained increase in muscle sympathetic nerve activity induced by inspiratory capacity apnea: a fMRI study.

scientific article published on 25 August 2005

Obstructive Sleep Apnoea and Hypertension: the Role of the Central Nervous System.

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On the number of preganglionic neurons driving human postganglionic sympathetic neurons: a comparison of modeling and empirical data.

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Pain inhibits pain; human brainstem mechanisms

scientific article published on 3 September 2015

Pathological sympathoexcitation: how is it achieved?

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Physiological and pathophysiological firing properties of single postganglionic sympathetic neurons in humans

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Physiological characteristics of low-threshold mechanoreceptors in joints, muscle and skin in human subjects.

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Projection of low-threshold afferents from human intercostal muscles to the cerebral cortex

scientific article published on 01 August 1989

Prolonged surges of baroreflex-resistant muscle sympathetic drive during periodic breathing.

scientific article published in June 2002

Random-amplitude sinusoidal linear acceleration causes greater vestibular modulation of skin sympathetic nerve activity than constant-amplitude acceleration

scientific article published on 02 July 2018

Rate of rise in diastolic blood pressure influences vascular sympathetic response to mental stress.

scientific article published on 30 September 2016

Real-time imaging of brain areas involved in the generation of spontaneous skin sympathetic nerve activity at rest.

scientific article published on 24 February 2013

Real-time imaging of cortical areas involved in the generation of increases in skin sympathetic nerve activity when viewing emotionally charged images.

scientific article published on 2 May 2012

Real-time imaging of the medullary circuitry involved in the generation of spontaneous muscle sympathetic nerve activity in awake subjects.

scientific article published in April 2010

Recording and quantifying sympathetic outflow to muscle and skin in humans: methods, caveats and challenges

scientific article published on 25 June 2020

Relationship between proprioception at the knee joint and gait ataxia in HSAN III.

scientific article published on 16 May 2013

Relationship between spontaneous sympathetic baroreflex sensitivity and cardiac baroreflex sensitivity in healthy young individuals.

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Respiratory modulation of muscle sympathetic nerve activity in obstructive sleep apnoea.

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Respiratory modulation of muscle sympathetic nerve activity is not increased in essential hypertension or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ⬇️

scientific article published on August 15, 2011

Respiratory muscle activity during asphyxic apnoea and opisthotonus in the rabbit

scientific article published on 01 September 1986

Resting discharge of human muscle spindles is not modulated by increases in sympathetic drive.

scientific article published on 15 August 2003

Reversal of functional changes in the brain associated with obstructive sleep apnoea following 6 months of CPAP

scientific article published on 21 February 2015

Selective activation of muscle and skin nociceptors does not trigger exaggerated sympathetic responses in spinal-injured subjects

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Selective autonomic failure: Ross syndrome ⬇️

scientific article published on January 20, 2012

Short-term peripheral nerve stimulation ameliorates axonal dysfunction after spinal cord injury.

scientific article published on 18 March 2015

Single tactile afferents outperform human subjects in a vibrotactile intensity discrimination task

scientific article published on 20 August 2014

Single-minded about heart failure

scientific article published on 01 June 2009

Skin Sympathetic Nerve Activity is Modulated during Slow Sinusoidal Linear Displacements in Supine Humans

scientific article published on 16 February 2016

Skin sympathetic nerve activity in humans during exposure to emotionally-charged images: sex differences.

scientific article published on 19 March 2014

Slowly Adapting Mechanoreceptors in the Borders of the Human Fingernail Encode Fingertip Forces

scientific article published on 01 July 2009

Somatosympathetic Vasoconstrictor Reflexes in Human Spinal Cord Injury: Responses to Innocuous and Noxious Sensory Stimulation below Lesion.

scientific article published on 25 June 2012

Somatotopic organization of the processing of muscle and cutaneous pain in the left and right insula cortex: a single-trial fMRI study.

scientific article published on 2 October 2006

Spontaneous and evoked ectopic discharges recorded from single human axons ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 April 1998

Spontaneous fluctuations in the peripheral photoplethysmographic waveform: roles of arterial pressure and muscle sympathetic nerve activity

scientific article published on 23 November 2011

Superentrainment of muscle sympathetic nerve activity during sinusoidal galvanic vestibular stimulation.

scientific article published on 21 September 2016

Susceptibility to motion sickness is not increased following spinal cord injury

scientific article published on 01 January 2015

Sustained activation of muscle sympathetic outflow during static lung inflation depends on a high intrathoracic pressure ⬇️

scientific article published on February 5, 1998

Sympathetic Responses to Noxious Stimulation of Muscle and Skin

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Sympathetic baroreflex sensitivity is inversely related to vascular transduction in men but not women

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Sympathetic microneurography.

scientific article published on January 2013

Sympathetic single axonal discharge after spinal cord injury in humans: activity at rest and after bladder stimulation.

scientific article published on 25 March 2014

Tachypnoeic response to amyl nitrite inhalation in the rabbit

scientific article published on 01 November 1985

Tactile afferents encode grip safety before slip for different frictions

scientific article published on 01 January 2014

The Effect of Nitric Oxide Inhibition in Spinal Cord Injured Humans with and without Preserved Sympathetic Control of the Vasculature

scientific article published on 10 March 2016

The Stability and Repeatability of Spontaneous Sympathetic Baroreflex Sensitivity in Healthy Young Individuals.

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The contribution of transcortical pathways to long-latency stretch and tactile reflexes in human hand muscles.

scientific article published in February 1996

The cortical drive to human respiratory muscles in the awake state assessed by premotor cerebral potentials.

scientific article published in August 1991

The discharge behaviour of single sympathetic neurones supplying human sweat glands.

scientific article published on December 1996

The discharge behaviour of single vasoconstrictor motoneurones in human muscle nerves

scientific article published on 01 December 1994

The effects of audiovisual distraction on the muscle sympathetic responses to experimental muscle pain.

scientific article published on 25 April 2018

The effects of experimental muscle and skin pain on the static stretch sensitivity of human muscle spindles in relaxed leg muscles

scientific article published on 10 April 2008

The metaboreflex does not contribute to the increase in muscle sympathetic nerve activity to contracting muscle during static exercise in humans

scientific article published on 8 January 2018

The relationship between thalamic GABA content and resting cortical rhythm in neuropathic pain

scientific article published on 17 January 2018

The vestibular system does not modulate fusimotor drive to muscle spindles in contracting leg muscles of seated subjects.

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The vestibular system does not modulate fusimotor drive to muscle spindles in relaxed leg muscles of subjects in a near-vertical position.

scientific article published on 02 March 2016

Tonic muscle pain does not increase fusimotor drive to human leg muscles: implications for chronic muscle pain ⬇️

scientific article published on February 15, 2013

Vestibular Modulation of Sympathetic Nerve Activity to Muscle and Skin in Humans.

scientific article published on 26 July 2017

Vestibular and pulse-related modulation of skin sympathetic nerve activity during sinusoidal galvanic vestibular stimulation in human subjects.

scientific article published on 30 December 2009

Vestibular inputs do not influence the fusimotor system in relaxed muscles of the human leg.

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Vestibular modulation of muscle sympathetic nerve activity assessed over a 100-fold frequency range of sinusoidal galvanic vestibular stimulation

scientific article published on 27 February 2019

Vestibular modulation of muscle sympathetic nerve activity by the utricle during sub-perceptual sinusoidal linear acceleration in humans

scientific article published on 07 February 2014

Vestibular modulation of muscle sympathetic nerve activity during sinusoidal linear acceleration in supine humans.

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Vestibulo-sympathetic responses.

scientific article published on April 2014

Vibration sensitivity of human muscle spindles and Golgi tendon organs

scientific article published on 01 July 2007

Viscerosympathetic reflexes in human spinal cord injury: relationships between detrusor pressure, blood pressure and skin blood flow during bladder distension

scientific article published on 08 February 2013

Within-limb somatotopic representation of acute muscle pain in the human contralateral dorsal posterior insula

scientific article published on 15 September 2010

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