Driving human motoneurones: recent surprises and possible applications
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Motoneurones retain pride of place as the Sherringtonian ‘final common pathway’. Conceptually, they integrate the various inputs they receive and convert the input to a frequency code which then is conveyed to the muscle to produce force. Aspects of this conversion by the motoneurone have been the subject of much investigation [for reviews see, for example, 1, 2]). I comment on some of the paradoxes and then discuss some recent investigations of the output from, human motoneurones and studies of the cortical drive to motoneurones.
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